Here is your opportunity to cast your vote on the state of Michael Vick’s soul or, at the very least, the quality of his press-conference performance the other day.
CT asks readers about Vick's 'God card'
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Newsweek: Avoid stereotyping
Newsweek‘s Lisa Miller has some advice for journalists covering people who “were taught that homosexuality is an abomination and that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden”: Be compassionate and avoid stereotyping.
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Michael Vick, sinner (to be continued)
You knew that the religion ghost in the Michael Vick story would wake up. I mean, last week I put it this way in a post responding to a Michael Wilbon column in The Washington Post that veered into faith language:
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The latest bus tour of Jesus Land
“The Iconoclasts,” Jason Zengerle’s New Republic report on evangelicals who have become Eastern Orthodox, is a largely commendable effort to let a few of these converts speak for themselves, but it presents an overly political picture of evangelicalism.
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Newsflash: Obama invokes religion
It seems strange, two years later, to reflect on the destruction wreaked by Hurricane Katrina across North America, but most memorably in New Orleans. As the years go by, it will be interesting to see how much coverage the continuing aftermath receives. Some believe that the coverage helps the city and the region, while others believe that the continued focus on the problems keeps the city and the region from returning to normalcy.
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E.P. Hemingway is in the house
It took several days to get the basic facts together with a photograph, but we can pass along the happy news that the Divine Ms. M.Z. Hemingway (and hubby) are the proud parents of a baby Lutheran.
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What kind of 'evangelist' is Kennedy?
I am tempted to think that the word “evangelical” and several words connected to it have become too vague to be of any use to mainstream reporters. I know that’s impossible. There are simply too many people who use “evangelical” as a noun or an adjective these days.
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Peeling back the corporate chaplain story
I first heard of the “booming business” of corporate chaplains in American companies on The Economist‘s podcast Friday afternoon. I hadn’t heard a word about this trend for years. Since when does a British magazine break news on American business and religion trends?
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Compassionate criticism
I wrote a post here the other day about the resignation of Karl “Boy Genius” Rove in which I noted that the mainstream coverage of his exit did little to dig into his relationship with conservative Christians. This gap was really strange if you stopped and thought about it, in light of that voting bloc’s strategic role in the Bush era.
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