It’s time for another one of those posts that begins with a disclaimer.
Newsweek takes a stab at Intelligent Design
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State of the "spot the code words" game
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"Lust" is now taboo during the Super Bowl
The past few months have been strange at the intersection of faith and advertising, beginning with the big three networks’ rejection of the United Church of Christ’s TV spots and continuing with Rolling Stone‘s temporary rejection of an ad promoting a new gender-inclusive version of the Bible.
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Not dead yet
I don’t often read The Scotsman, but you have to love a newspaper that puts the “key points” up front, in bullets. Slim chance of burying the lede with this approach. In this case, the highlights are:
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The Bill O'Reilly of MSNBC
Keith Olbermann has been on a tear about James Dobson and Focus on the Family for several days now, mostly on his MSNBC blog, but Tuesday night he took his grievances into prime time.
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The Osteen factor
Louis Romano hits where it hurts in his profile of Joel Osteen in Sunday’s Washington Post by closing on what Osteen would call a negative note:
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Dr. James Dobson tries to lobby the press
Gosh, you go on the road for a few days out into slow dial-up territory and you get behind on your daily barrage email and, lo and behold, you miss something truly interesting like this epistle.
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But his wife was the salt of the earth
In the comments thread to my last, a reader pointed out this article from The New York Times Book Review. The reviewer, one Kathryn Harrison, looks at Lot’s Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Women’s Quest for Authority.
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From Father Richard to T.D. Jakes
As “Meet the Evangelicals” pieces go, Time‘s cover package this week is high-quality work. It revisits familiar faces (Billy and Franklin Graham) but also introduces names that would be less familiar even in some evangelical circles (Luis Cortes, Douglas Coe). The photographs show these evangelicals in their natural elements, looking relaxed, friendly and smart.
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