Folks inside the Beltway are really starting to do the Jan. 20 math.
Gap in the Mall stories
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It's not the dread on your head that make you Rasta
You would think that, since my alma mater is the University of Colorado, I would know a lot about Rastafarianism. But I don’t. And mainstream media articles such as the ones below, dealing with a lawsuit brought by a Rastafarian against his employer, aren’t likely to cure that problem.
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Sealed with a kiss?
Vikki Ortiz of the Chicago Tribune picked up a pleasant romantic story about a couple who committed to each other that they would not kiss until the wedding day. More precisely, the couple could and would kiss on the cheek (as demonstrated in the article’s photo), but that was where it ended. The purpose of the kiss limitation was to keep the couple from breaking an abstinence pledge.
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Why did these terrorists target Jews?
So let’s say that some very zealous, very strange missionaries arrived in a complex, multifaith city — perhaps even Mumbai, India.
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Take this bread
I receive Communion at my church at least once a week and yet I have never contemplated where my congregation gets our bread and wine. So I was fascinated by a light feature in the Boston Globe about a local company that makes Communion wafers.
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Giving when it hurts
It’s easy to guess that the financial crisis sweeping the country will affect the bottom line for many, if not most, religious groups.
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Bullets, bombs and prayer shawls
I have been struggling to catch up with the coverage of the Mumbai coverage, since I was tucked away in a remote corner of the North Carolina mountains with my family when the story broke.
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Math is hard
My educational background is in economics, not journalism or religion. Which means I had to sit through approximately eleventy billion hours of math and statistics coursework in college. I think reporters and editors could use a dose of math themselves — if only to avoid their ever present confusion about percentages.
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Marilynne Robinson on science and faith
Late last month, GetReligion considered the work of Marilynne Robinson — especially in response to an ill-founded claim by Ruth Franklin in The New Republic that Robinson is a fierce opponent of predestination.
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