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I wanted to like Jon Meacham’s Billy Graham exclusive Newsweek cover story. It contained lots of good information. There were colorful, well-described scenes and a solid understanding of Graham’s mission as an evangelist. It dealt with most of the Graham-related scandals. At about 4,500 words, the piece was thorough and non-repetitive.
Several readers have dropped me notes, seeking my take on that Washington Post travel feature the other day focusing on what it is like to visit the Holy Community of Mount Athos, on its rich, green, mountainous peninsula in northeast Greece.
I spent yesterday in an unformfortable chair waiting to see if I has going to end up on a jury. There’s a good chance I’ll be back in one of those chairs again in the days ahead. The good news is that this allowed me to read some long articles that I had torn out of magazines in recent days and stashed in my battered DC-commuter shoulder bag.
While it’s still too early to be talking 2008 presidential politics, we can’t help ourselves here at GetReligion, particularly when one of the country’s major publications puts out a landmark piece on how religion will affect the potential candidacy of not just a particular candidate but of the entire race.
In this discussion about The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s less-than-stellar article on female ordination, reader Larry Rasczak notes similarities between the way the media have traditionally covered the military and the way they handle religion. It leads him to make a suggestion:
Here at GetReligion, we’re fond of highlighting danger zones where the media struggle to understand religious issues. And we try to help reporters see nuance, or find angles they may not have considered.
Let me jump in here after Doug’s post with a quick sequel on a related issue of Anglicans in the media. By the way, you can click here for a recent LeBlancian CT article on TEC news.
An August 5 article in the Los Angeles Times brought to our attention that Jews and Muslims are not the only ones caught up in Middle East conflict. Christians live there too.
Susan Wood, filing for the [Carson City] Nevada Appeal News Service, detects an irony that has, to date, escaped the attention of church historians. Writing about a visit of Katharine Jefferts Schori, who will become the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church on Nov. 4, Wood offers this stunning collection of direct quotes and sloppy paraphrases:
