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Ruth Gledhill of The Times of London has suffered a rhetorical lashing from an academic who accused her of not understanding contemporary New Testament scholarship. The benighted Gledhill is one of those journalists who seems to believe that words have meaning, and that certain ways of changing words invariably change meaning.
S.C. Gwynne of Texas Monthly has turned in a tour de force article about the current struggles of the Episcopal Church, marred only by a liturgically informed but sneering headline (“Peace be with you. And also with you. Unless you’re gay”).
Chris Rock jokes in his latest HBO special, Never Scared, that he favors gay marriage because “gay people have a right to be as miserable as anybody else.” That pretty well sums up the consensus in a forum by The Nation called “Can Marriage Be Saved?”
It is getting harder and harder for the mainstream press to ignore the importance of the word “infidel” in Iraq and around the world.
In the June 28 issue of Time, David Van Biema writes four sharp mini-profiles of women in “tall-steeple” ministries. Women’s ordination remains a volatile issue in many denominations, fraught with feminists’ charges of discrimination and traditionalists’ charges of compromising the faith.
Here’s an example of a critical story finding its way from the blogosphere into print: In March the Rev. Sun Myung Moon managed to get himself and his wife crowned — in a ceremony inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building — as Ambassadors for Peace.
This week in religion news begins with glad tidings for Anglicans and comedy fans alike: the producers of The Simpsons have invited Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, to consider a guest appearance.
Friend of GetReligion Rod Dreher at the Dallas Morning News has flown a red alert flag on the blog operated by the newspaper’s editorial page staff.
