Now here is one of those matches that seems to have been made in new media heaven. The New York Daily News notes:
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Buddhists, Jews and orgasms
If you’re one of those rare individuals who is interested in the topic of sex, you may enjoy Patricia Leigh Brown and Carol Pogash’s story in the Sunday New York Times about a co-ed live-in commune dedicated to the female orgasm.
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Holy St. Padraig, pray for us
I have no idea how this national-angle story ended up in the Waco Tribune-Herald — in a city that is not exactly a major center for Roman Catholic culture and news, unless we are talking about Baylor University wars over the role of faith in higher education. But I fear that there really is something to this story, because it’s, well, so logical in this day and age.
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Away from keys
Associated Press technology writer Peter Svensson produced a wry, understated story on Sunday about two services that will tie up loose ends after their clients die. Svensson’s angle makes sense, given his beat. He concentrates on the technological challenge of informing a person’s online friends that they will hear nothing more from the deceased:
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Time for the never-ssenes?
For those of you who haven’t had the experience of attending a mainline seminary or studying the Bible in an academic institution, the Essenes are almost as much a matter of contemporary Biblical orthodoxy as the historical-critical method.
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To whom did he pray?
A reader noted a brief bit in an Associated Press story about the Alabama man who killed 10 people and himself in a violent rampage last week.
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Better uses for blogs
Boston Globe religion reporter Michael Paulson has been covering an interesting story. The local Catholic hospital chain and a secular insurance company are forming a joint venture. Cardinal O’Malley supports the move but many critics are concerned about whether the arrangement will entangle the church with abortion. For his latest, he surveyed moral theologians:
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Obama and the pro-life left (again)
For Christians in the West, Easter is not that far away and a strange combination of politicos and professional pew observers inside the DC Beltway are turning up the heat on the Obama family church watch.
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Ghost (again) in Tyler Perry's rise
Allow me to add my two cents to the Rt. Rev. Doug LeBlanc’s post about the Tyler Perry culture wars, since I’ve had a post lingering in my guilt file on this subject for several weeks.
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