You may have noticed that Democratic Party Chairman Howard “God, gays and guns” Dean has shown up again on the Godbeat.
Could it be . . .
Anglican West to Anglican South: Drop dead
Don’t be deceived by the so-what-else-is-new headline on our friend Julia Duin’s report in The Washington Times. “African bishops reject aid,” as the Times’ headline puts it, has been a story since the latter months of 2003, when many African bishops announced their intentions to protest the Episcopal Church’s decision to consecrate Gene Robinson as an openly gay bishop.
Christian niche news bad for The Nation?
I thought some GetReligion readers might find the following Dallas Morning News report interesting (even though I show up in it as a source).
Goodbye Quakers, hello Frappuccino
Peter Slevin of The Washington Post has written such a moving profile of two Quakers’ long-term work in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing development that you may end up wishing this once notoriously violent community would stay together forever.
Colson and Howie mull Deep questions
It isn’t every day that one gets to read Howie Kurtz and Chuck Colson and mull over moral issues linked to journalism and politics and the politics of journalism. Still, it’s clear that people are a long, long way from being done talking about the Deep Throat case. To get back the original post by the Rt. Rev. LeBlanc, please click here.
The rain in Spain
“Police and intelligence were working under the mental framework that Islamists would never attack Spain.”
Allah and Viagra
The current issue of The Economist has a nifty pair of articles about politics in Egypt and the spread of an Islamist party that originated in Egypt and may be set to come to power.
The story that is haunting me today
Today’s Washington Post is so full of religion stories and religion haunted stories that I hardly know where to begin — from abortion rulings to the latest Koran crime update, from a reporter taking a Bible Belt trip through her past in a vanishing Virginia town to yet another stunning Catholic clergy abuse lawsuit settlement. This does not even include the religion page.
