Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times moves well beyond the pedantic slogan that God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat by touching base with her former roommates from Wheaton College.
Good enough men
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But remember when you step / into your voting booth
How does that old saying go? Presidential politics makes for interesting one-night stands. In pursuit of a singular goal — getting more votes than the other guy — arguments are advanced during election season that would not be tolerated by the parties’ bases at any other time.
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Sikh compromise
Small crosses are OK in France. Large crosses are not. Well, the same principle does not apply to turbans. Young Sikh men are in trouble with authorities in state schools, even after they removed their colorful turbans and wore less prominent under-turbans. Meanwhile, young Muslim women continue to cause trouble, refusing to remove their veils. This is, of course, an ongoing story that still has drawn little attention in the U.S. France is trying to replace tolerance with secularism, creating a glimpse into the next generation of culture wars in Europe.
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Bush: The New Age candidate of the Christian Right?
It’s been almost a week since Ron Suskind did his best to electrify the anti-evangelical voter base on behalf of the New York Times Sunday Magazine and, thus, the Democratic Party. His “Without a Doubt” essay was a rock, thrown into the pond of elite media opinion shortly before the battle to save civilization. The ripples should continue until the election. Once again, here is his lead:
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"Rude" Ruth asks: Would Bishop Griswold do it again?
Someone in the company of Frank Griswold, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, apparently has not grasped a basic principle of sensible media relations: Do not berate a reporter who’s trying to do her job.
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Sexy ghost
There are all kinds of ways that you can spin this one. Republicans have happier sex lives than Democrats. OK, does this mean that people who go to church more often have happier sex lives than those that, well, stay home on Sunday a.m. and look at the erotic ads in The New York Times (tip of the hat to Woody Allen)? And what about these results? Who has worn something sexy to enhance their sex life? Republicans — 72 percent; Democrats — 62 percent. Who has faked an orgasm? Democrats — 33 percent; Republicans — 26 percent. What is the ghost in those numbers?
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You guzzle your crutch and shove it up your nose
Entertainment writers tend to be — how shall I put this? — very, very secular. Because of this demographic bias, they often have certain blinders. Hit Christian movies can sneak up on them like special forces troops creeping through tall grasses to find the enemy and rip their throats out. Now that I’ve got your attention with that rather . . . grotesque simile, I’d like to clear a story off of the GetReligion assignment desk.
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The Wright stuff: Anglican issues worth arguing about
GetReligion.org readers need to know that Douglas LeBlanc has this thing against putting references to his own journalistic endeavors on this blog, especially when that work appears in the pages or cyber-spaces of that great evangelical fortress called Christianity Today.
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Blaming Akinola
Larry Stammer’s report in Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times could leave readers with the impression that if reconciliation fails in the Anglican Communion, it is largely the fault of Archbishop Peter J. Akinola of the Church of Nigeria.
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