Did you see this headline in that Boston Globe essay by Andrew J. Bacevich of Boston University?
With this hot cash register, I thee wed
Three of the major festivals of the church year are Christmas, Easter and Pentecost. In America, we celebrate Christmas with abandon, Easter with a minor uptick in chocolate sales, and Pentecost hardly at all.
Letting Billy Graham remain ... Billy
Billy Graham turned 90 at the end of this past week, a landmark event that received very little press, all things considered. There were other things going on in the nation, of course.
Do they believe in magic?
Whatever would the world of religious journalism do without noted British evolutionary biologist — and even more famous atheist — Richard Dawkins?
Second-hand news on Obama
The evolution of a story
It’s a good thing I have been following the Proposition 8 battle because if I hadn’t, there is no way I would have understood this Los Angeles Times story at all. It’s about a protest organized by opponents of the Proposition 8, the initiative that passed Tuesday amending the California Constitution to define marriage as an institution involving one man and one woman. While a non-constitutional ballot initiative saying the same thing passed with an even greater margin 8 years ago, the state supreme court had ruled that bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional. Anyway, this initiative — already in the works before the June ruling — passed and there have been various protests around the state.
Newsweek has spoken; the case is closed
It is no surprise that Newsweek has joined the chorus declaring evangelicals as big losers in this year’s election. What surprises me more is the exaggerated tone of both the headline on Newsweek‘s Web Exclusive by Lisa Miller — “Post-Evangelical America” — and of her first three sentences:
Resizing the "God Gap"?
Democrats were more successful in attracting religious voters across the board this year than in the previous election — that much seems indisputable.
John Green is our man
So, what’s the story about religious voters in the 2008 election? Well, it depends on who you’re talking to.
