For the second time in a week, I am about to get on an airplane and head out to the Los Angeles area, which means testing the battery life on my iPod video again.
Wanted: One "Passion Playbook"
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A few bad men
When the Ted Haggard sex scandal broke, Lexington Herald-Leader religion reporter Frank Lockwood posed an interesting question:
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Sports reporters turning to God
The domain of sports reporting often overlaps into religion, and appropriately so. The best sports reporting focuses on people, and people are often religious.
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Wacky pastors fret over Ahmadinejad
It’s a topic that comes up every now and then when mainstream reporters try to figure out the foreign policy implications of all of those bizarre evangelical beliefs about Israel and the end of the world.
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Cheaper by the dozen
Of the topics that are both universally experienced and wildly controversial, procreation has to rank near the top. Kudos to Eileen Finan at Newsweek for a remarkably balanced piece about a landmine-prone issue. (And thanks to reader Jon Swerens for letting us know about the article.) In an online-only piece, she looks at a movement of Protestant Christians opposed to birth control of any kind:
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Did Democrats win with pew voters?
While most election results came in Tuesday night, it was not until Saturday morning, appropriately, that we discovered where values voters stood.
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Slicing up that old pizza guy
OK, football fans, is everyone else as tired of the horrid Domino’s Brooklyn Style Pizza ads as I am? If I hear “Fold it like a man!” one more time I think I am going to give up pizza for Nativity Lent or something radical like that.
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Someone's mocking, Lord, kumbaya!
Every now and then, it’s OK for experienced, skilled journalistic specialists to let their hair down and have a little fun.
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On hypocrisy
When Mike Jones went to the media with claims that New Life megachurch pastor Ted Haggard had paid him for sex and meth, he said he did so because of Haggard’s hypocrisy. Jones said he felt that Haggard was a hypocrite because he preached against homosexual behavior while also engaging in it.
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