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The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has revised Bishop Jon Bruno’s PowerPoint presentation, “The Anglican Communion: A Roomy House,” to reflect the uncertain nature of a remark credited to Richard Hooker (original slide at left).
During the church season of Easter, some modern minds naturally turn to a quixotic crusade: How to rid religions of all that is supernatural and embarrassing to moderns.
If the New York Times is the Bible of elite journalism, then we can now say that questions about whether Sen. John “Call me JFK” Kerry should be receiving Communion at Catholic altars are officially legit. The New York Times has written about this topic, even if the paper elected not to make this a photo op.
Hooray for Entertainment Weekly in publishing “Hooray for Holywood” in its April 16 edition. The feature is not yet available online — but even when it is, the content will be available only to EW subscribers or AOL customers.
Rabbi Daniel S. Brenner writes in the New Jersey Jewish News about the PCUSA’s vote on divestment from Israel:
When I was working as a full-time religion-beat reporter, the phrase I most dreaded hearing my editor say was, “I think we’ve got to do a trend story on that.” Well, that and the dreaded, “There’s a call from a furious (insert denominational name here) minister on line one.”
We will assume for a moment that GetReligion readers are an educated, modest lot. Thus, the odds are good that you have not heard of Maxim, which is kind of like an Esquire magazine for young males with the attention spans of hummingbirds on cocaine.
Jimmy Breslin and the Rev. Lou Sheldon may have more in common than either man realizes — beginning with their rhetorical styles. Sheldon makes sweeping statements about gay activists, while Breslin uses a remark of doubtful merit to make sweeping statements about Sheldon (and about political and religious leaders seen in Sheldon’s presence).
Through the years I have attended my share of conferences and seminars about the status of religion coverage in the mainstream press. This is what I do.
