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A curious op-ed appeared during the weekend in The Dallas Morning News. The author began by telling readers that, “Barring some kind of miracle, the forced starvation of Terri Schiavo will begin Friday.”
You are in a laboratory on a state university campus, in facilities funded with a stream of tax dollars. The dark room is full of medical students, taking part in a sacred ritual that will end a required course in Gross Anatomy.
Urban Dictionary defines glurge as “syrupy sweet e-mails that are mass-mailed to unwilling participants” that usually involve “puppies, kitties, children with disabilities, puppies and kitties with disabilities, and Jesus.” Glurge also is a category at Snopes.com.
First, let me say that I really enjoyed your Critic’s Notebook piece the other day titled “Where’s Jane Fonda? On Yet Another Journey.”
OK, it’s official for me now: Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times is essential reading for keeping up with the intersection of religion and pop culture. (Her blog, The Dude Abides, provides a helpful archive back to December 2003.)
Two posts on Salon today prove that the alt-daily website can cover religion just as well, although not nearly as often, as it covers the sacrament of sex.
One hopes this will be the last GetReligion post on the controversy over the New York Press‘ anti-pope cover story. I’m afraid if I spend any more time on the intricacies of this, I will start to theorize about grassy knolls and second gunmen.
I teach a seminar titled “Exegete the Culture” at Palm Beach Atlantic University that studies the religious content of secular media as well as how the surrounding media culture affects the church.
