I am online again briefly in Thessaloniki and, whoa, there’s two ghosts in the same Associated Press story.
Searching for "pottage" in Associated Press style
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A bomb, an earthquake and a religion story in Istanbul
Greetings from Istanbul. Isn’t WiFi interesting. Just think, someone from NATO security is probably reading this message as I type it. The airport here really is locked down.
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Rescuing Paul from himself
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.
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Texas-sized coverage of ECUSA
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”).
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First comes love . . . oh, to hell with it
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?”
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Just another old-fashioned, fundamentalist way to die?
It is getting harder and harder for the mainstream press to ignore the importance of the word “infidel” in Iraq and around the world.
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Time discovers Carol Anderson
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.
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The Catholic gun didn't go off: Silence greets Dallas News series
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Another step toward "Godism"
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.
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