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Nice job, Julie Bloom of the New York Times, for an article about a successful God-themed film written and produced by three Baptist pastors from Georgia. You tackled the interplay between faith, commerce and art, which can be a minefield, clearly and without condescension.
Newsweek‘s Lisa Miller has written a mostly thoughtful and revealing profile of Kirbyjon Caldwell this week. The story describes how Caldwell, pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston, introduced George W. Bush at the Republican National Convention in 2000, voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004 and has now changed his political loyalties.
I have been surprised, quite frankly, that the annual “Respect Life” emphasis in Catholic churches has not received more coverage in the mainstream press this year.
I wasn’t able to take very much Latin in junior high school, but I’m pretty sure that it was the most important subject I studied. It helped immeasurably with learning other foreign languages, English grammar and vocabulary in general. When our children are ready, we’ll be sending them* to a school where Latin is a major component.
The big issue in tonight’s debate was the economy yet again (with foreign policy as the side dish). The closest the candidates came to discussing issues of morality or faith was both candidates’ criticism of Wall Street for corporate excess and greed and McCain’s frequent calls for faith in the American people.
While I am on a post-denominational roll here, let me — with a bit of a tired smirk — point GetReligion readers toward the following Associated Press report out of Nashville, focusing on an interesting angle linked to the presidential debate tonight. Here’s the top of the story:
So there are literally hundreds of stories out there about Pope Benedict XVI launching a marathon Bible reading this week. And the vast majority have the Who (The Pope), the What (marathon Bible reading session), the Where (the Vatican) and the When (right now). This Agence France-Presse story is representative. This Telegraph story was a bit better, but just touched on it.
If you’ve been following our coverage of the debates about Gov. Sarah Palin and her faith, you know that many people do not know what label to stick on her. Is she a “fundamentalist”? Is she a “Pentecostal” Christian? A “charismatic”? An off-the-rack, nondenominational, evangelical Protestant?
