June 3, 2004

Hitting a nerve: Politics, class, morality, social issues, religion, news

June 3, 2004

When Doug and I started GetReligion.org, I decided early on I would not post my Scripps Howard News Service columns week after week. If anyone wants to see them, they can go to tmatt.net or even get on the listserv. But I am posting some info on this week’s column for a simple reason: It continues a discussion we have already been having on this site about the recent survey of journalists released by the Pew Research Center and the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

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Douglas LeBlanc

June 2, 2004

Anglicanism, Douglas LeBlanc

N.T. Wright's dynamic orthodoxy

Douglas LeBlanc

June 2, 2004

Anglicanism, Douglas LeBlanc

I first heard N.T. Wright in 1993, at a conference of Episcopalians called Shaping Our Future. (The Rev. J. Stephen Freeman, whose essay of the same title prompted the conference, edited a collection of essays from that conference before converting to Orthodoxy.)

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Douglas LeBlanc

June 2, 2004

Douglas LeBlanc, Journalism, Social Issues

Abu Ghraib and the blame game

Douglas LeBlanc

June 2, 2004

Douglas LeBlanc, Journalism, Social Issues

A news report by The Washington Post‘s Caryle Murphy and a column by Frank Rich of The New York Times both explore the question of whether pornography helped create the atmosphere of abuse and sexual humiliation at Abu Ghraib prison.

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Terry Mattingly

June 1, 2004

Social Issues, Terry Mattingly

Sex & the Ghost II: Cells, IM, hookups and something strange called guilt

Terry Mattingly

June 1, 2004

Social Issues, Terry Mattingly

What teen-agers need today is an “international base system.”

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Terry Mattingly

May 31, 2004

Catholicism, Terry Mattingly

Life after Pentecost: The Catholic Communion story marches on

Terry Mattingly

May 31, 2004

Catholicism, Terry Mattingly

Sen. John “Call me JFK” Kerry must be so relieved. Then again, maybe not. Another front has opened up in the Catholic Communion war and, once again, the lifestyle left wing of the Democratic Party is likely to be (a) stuck taking a stand that will fire up moral traditionalists or (b) firming up its lock on every voter who has enjoyed the Da Vinci Code.

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Douglas LeBlanc

May 29, 2004

Catholicism, Douglas LeBlanc

Rainbow children

Douglas LeBlanc

May 29, 2004

Catholicism, Douglas LeBlanc

Journalists and Catholic politicians alike have protested that some Catholic bishops are advocating Eucharistic discipline only on the issue of abortion. Now Francis Cardinal George of Chicago has expanded the scope of such discipline — but not in a way that would please the bishops’ critics.

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Terry Mattingly

May 29, 2004

Terry Mattingly, Politics

On cat worship and another hot Catholic political issue

Terry Mattingly

May 29, 2004

Terry Mattingly, Politics

The following is a letter to the GetReligion.org editor from one of our readers, an old-fashioned Catholic peace activist named Juli Loesch Wiley.

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Terry Mattingly

May 28, 2004

Academia, Terry Mattingly

Sex & the Ghost: Searching for values in a numbers game

Terry Mattingly

May 28, 2004

Academia, Terry Mattingly

One of the things I love the most about being back in Washington, D.C., once a year is the joy of reading a great newspaper — on dead tree pulp. There is nothing like reading an old-fashioned analog newspaper to help you see the ghosts drifting through the lines of inky type.

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Douglas LeBlanc

May 27, 2004

Douglas LeBlanc, Music

Richard Thompson's Natural Law satire

Douglas LeBlanc

May 27, 2004

Douglas LeBlanc, Music

Nobody could accuse singer-songwriter Richard Thompson of being a pawn of the religious right. Thompson expressed standard-issue contempt for fundamentalism in an October 2003 interview with writer Greg Kahill of metroactive.com. Discussing Thompson’s album Old Kit Bag, Kahill wrote:

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