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Jacques Berlinerblau, an associate professor and program director at Georgetown University, has launched an On Faith column on the “religion-industrial complex.”
One of my worst traits is that I love to watch and read about things I shouldn’t love to watch or read about. I have successfully limited my intake of gossip mags to in-flight reading, and I’m doing better about avoiding gossip sites, I guess, but I still have a major problem.
When I first heard about the investigation of the “D.C. Madam” and her infamous list of clients, I immediately had a sense of dread.
We’ve looked at a few mainstream media articles covering the Body Worlds exhibit that has been traveling around the country. In March of last year, Eric Gorski had a great feature in The Denver Post. In January of this year, Jeffrey Weiss ran an insightful Q&A with the exhibit’s creator in The Dallas Morning News .
The very last Baptist congregation that I called home, on my road to the ancient church of the East, was Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., which hails itself as an “ecumenical church” in the “Baptist tradition.”
A reader of ours, Fred, left us a note about a pretty shabby story out of the Contra Costa Times, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based daily newspaper, about declining membership in the Presbyterian church. As a side note, I encourage readers to keep sending us stories like these, the good and the bad. There is no way the four of us can canvas every single media outlet out there, and even some obvious stories in the major outlets slip past us from time to time, so please use that Contact link frequently.
Seattle Times religion reporter Janet Tu has been covering the rather juicy story of an Episcopal priest converting to Islam while seeing no conflict with her ordination vows in the Christian church. We discussed her mid-June story about the case already.
