In “Finding a way to tick off both camps in the abortion wars,” Terry writes:
Pro-brevity & pro-parity
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Finding a way to tick off both camps in the abortion wars
There have been some interesting comments on the pro-abortion-rights spell checker issue, so I’d like to respond a bit.
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Pro-abortion-rights spell checker in LA?
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Telling it on a mountain: nunsfortheabused.com
Friend of the blog Rod Dreher has a fine story today in the Wall Street Journal, digging behind a national Godbeat story (studies on Catholic clergy abuse) to find a small story that illuminates the big one. Dreher is a national-level writer on this issue and many others who is hidden inside the editorial pages of the Dallas Morning News.
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The Official Voice of the Jewish People (in Iowa)
Laurel Snyder is the Jewish Student Life Coordinator at the University of Iowa and, as of late, she also has worked overtime as the official spokesperson for all of Jewry — or at least Jews that live in certain zip codes near certain newspapers. She does not seem to have enjoyed this ink-stained role, according to her essay at The Revealer.
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Blind Willie McTell hollers the Gospel
Goodbye, Babylon, a boxed six-CD set of music and sermons distributed by a startup called Dust-to-Digital, has led to some remarkably faith-friendly writing in recent months. Here, for instance, is veteran reviewer David Fricke in the Jan. 29 Rolling Stone:
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Lost in Translation: Trying to speak blogosphere
I am still trying to learn the ropes in this blogosphere stuff. So I am wondering how to translate comments left by “michigancatholic” about our post on press coverage of the new reports on sexual abuse among Catholic clergy.
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Mean literalists suck
Poor besieged Anna Quindlen. She received an indignant letter from a reader, you see, and his tone reminded her of the chill wind that is religious intolerance. “When did it first become gospel that only conservatives knew God?” Quindlen asks. As evidence of this widespread bigotry, Quindlen refers to the notorious Christian apologist Bill O’Reilly — which could leave her more literal-minded readers thinking that God must sometimes refer to himself as The Factor.
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A scandalous example of sizeism in The Passion
Columnist Mark Holmberg of the Richmond Times-Dispatch has written one of the best reflections to date about The Passion of the Christ. Holmberg, a Pulitzer finalist for commentary in 2003, joined church members at a preview two days before the film’s opening.
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