Relax. I don’t think this wave of “Passion” coverage is going to be anywhere near the size of the last one. Just a few ripples.
Return of the Passion story: Hey, it was a movie
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Methodists give Willimon the last laugh
United Methodists did an amazing thing during the weekend in choosing William H. Willimon of Duke University as their next bishop in northern Alabama. Willimon, one of the few theologians to devote a book to humor, was jocular and self-deprecating as journalists reported on his appointment.
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With God, and the Times, on his side (Creeping Fundamentalism XI)
As you may have noticed, your friends here at GetReligion.org rarely, if ever, comment on op-ed columns. We’d need to open an entire second site if we started chasing religion into the editorial pages.
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Hasten down the mighty wind (Creeping Fundamentalism X)
After being booed during her Saturday night performance and ejected from the Aladdin hotel and casino, Linda Ronstadt is on the fast track to reverential treatment in the entertainment media. Now that she’s been subjected to the cruelties of a Las Vegas crowd — which typically doesn’t travel to the neon oasis to hear odes to filmmaker Michael Moore’s patriotism — it’s best not to predict what Ronstadt will have to say about these lumpen Americans.
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Assimilation goes better with Starbucks
As I’ve noted before in this space, The Life of David Gale once offered this dubious advice regarding cultural geography: “You know you are in the Bible belt when there are more churches than Starbucks.”
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Nearing end of the road: Christian porn, Passion and a digital mystery
During the past month or two, I have rarely seen my own office and my own telephone. I have been working in Washington, D.C., and then following that with travel to Turkey, Greece, Phoenix, the remote corners of the North Carolina mountains and this coming week to New Jersey.
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Scamming the scammers
From the BBC (via Religion News Blog) comes feel-good news about Nigerian 419 scams: a coalition called 419 Eater is fighting back and, in one case, using an elaborate parody of church talk to achieve its goal. (An audio report by BBC Radio 4 is available here.)
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Christians & comics: defying stereotypes
Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote a playful article last week about the Christian Comic Creators Summit at Judson College. It was a humble summit, attracting only 14 writers and artists.
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A plea for P-Funk harmony
The Parliament of the World’s Religions, which concluded yesterday in Barcelona, marked one happy development on the God Beat: seeing the latest on-site journalism by Gustav Niebuhr, former religion correspondent for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, who now teaches at Syracuse University.
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