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A long time ago, in a post about the Grammy Awards, I raised a basic question about God-talk in The Associated Press Stylebook. Here is what I wrote at that time, in reference to a Los Angeles Daily News story quoting diva Mary J. Blige expressing thanks to “Father, God, lord and savior Jesus Christ.”
I woke up the other morning and former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani was the Republican front-runner for the 2008 presidential race. How in the world did that happen? Heavy media coverage of “Rudy’s rise” came in over the weekend — first in a Washington Post A1 piece by Dan Balz and second in a Newsweek cover article by Jonathan Darman.
If there is anything that sets the hearts of the GetReligionistas a-twitter, it’s reading a really interesting news feature and, lo and behold, running into a solid, relevant dose of religion.
One more than a few occasions we (I?) have highlighted the work of talented Denver Post religion reporter Eric Gorski.
My husband and I are expecting a baby this August. During the AFC Championship Game in January, we were having a conversation with a friend who decided that if the baby is a boy, we should force him to become a football kicker. Our friend’s reasoning was that even relatively bad professional kickers make $400,000 a year. I told him to stop any such discussion because I hate it when parents force their children to fulfill the parents’ desires. Besides, I added, I want him to become a pastor.
It seems like it’s “Let’s try our hand at GetReligion work” week at the Chuck Colson research staff office.
Well, I really think I have to agree with veteran columnist and media critic John Leo. The following sentences are some of the strangest I have read in a major newspaper in a long time.
For those who are interested, Julie “Bible Girl” Lyons of the Dallas Observer has written a follow-up column to her hellish piece last week on the accusations of sexual abuse against Pastor Sherman Allen, a superstar Pentecostal preacher at the Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Fort Worth.
In an interesting discussion on how religion reporters should handle self-identification when it’s contested, reader Chris Bolinger — a former stringer — made this comment:
