Tebow's mission and his critics

I keep forgetting that this evening’s alleged national college football championship game is something in which sports fans are expected to be interested. The lack of a proper method for determining a national champion in college football really puts a downer in my interest in the game. Or maybe I’m still just sore about the Colts and the fact that Tony Dungy likely coached his last game in Indianapolis.


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Drilling down on the Godbeat

There are many bright lights on the religion beat but for consistency, you just can’t beat the Public Broadcasting Service’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. The journalists there produce a great show week after week. Readers of this blog would be remiss to not check it out.


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Solving that Mumbai mystery

Remember that truly bizarre passage in the Washington Post story about the massacre in Mumbai, the one that pondered the deep mystery of why the terrorists targeted Orthodox Jews and, well, other people who identified with the wrong world religions?


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How not to cure a "Blind Spot"

What we have here is the first positive review of “Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion” that grasps the mission of the book, yet rejects our — or to be specific, my — proposal to address the problem. To cut to the chase, Herb Denenberg’s review in The Bulletin (Philadelphia’s Family Newspaper) argues that reporters in the mainstream media are so blind, dumb and biased that it is time — you guessed it — to kill off the idealistic concept of an “American model of the press” and move on to alternative, niche publications.


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Will Church of the Saviour survive?

Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post wrote an exceptional front-page story on Tuesday about the uncertain future of the Church of the Saviour, which the Rev. Gordon and Mary Cosby founded 60 years ago. Cosby preached his final sermon — at age 91 — on December 28.


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The art of covering Christian Science

Home to the denomination’s “mother church,” the city of Boston is ground zero for a small but influential American denomination. The Christian Science Church and its nineteenth-century founder Mary Baker Eddy continue to merit press attention, particularly in an American society that increasingly targets the link between mental and physical health.


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Change at Obama's (old) church

Oh the constant joy it must bring to be a religious person associated with President-elect Barack Obama. With Baptist minister Rick Warren being sued by atheists over the use of the Lord’s name in an inauguration prayer, Obama’s old home church appears to be breathing a sigh of relief now that the election is over and Obama has officially moved to Washington, D.C.


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