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At The New York Times, the simple act of publishing a book review can lead to a news story. As noted on GetReligion in early June, Andrew Sullivan praised Tony Hendra’s confessional book Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul in a cover article for The New York Times Book Review. (Hendra is on the left in the photo from This is Spinal Tap.)
Sitting on my office desktop is a stack of British newspaper stories full of ghosts. Some easy to see and some a bit dodgy.
Just back in the door from Turkey and Greece and I am way, way jet-lagged. But there is always all of that back email to triage.
Thursday’s religion news provided a few troubling examples of church leaders who have a less than firm grasp of reality.
An essay by the Rev. Dr. Giles Fraser in Monday’s Guardian begins on a promising enough note: he criticizes BBC2 host Nick Page for describing Prime Minister Tony Blair as a Christian fundamentalist.
Richard Dujardin of the Province Journal reported Sunday (free registration required) about a Lutheran pastor trained by a rabbi who is helping address conflicts between an Episcopal bishop and her priests.
John Rather of The New York Times has written an intriguing roundup about the protracted conflict between Bishop Orris G. “Jay” Walker of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island and some of his clergy. (I apologize that the story is now available only in the Times’ electronic archives.)
I am online again briefly in Thessaloniki and, whoa, there’s two ghosts in the same Associated Press story.
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.
