No one does pack journalism like the Brits, but let me jump in here and give it a try.
Scottish church lady finds her voice (updated)
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Questioning Obama's religious rhetoric
Most news stories I have surveyed on President Obama’s speech Tuesday on the economy (among other things) have mentioned his use of the biblical metaphor of the nation’s economy being built on a rock, but few have gone beyond the message’s surface. (See here, here, here, here, here, and here.) For starters, none of the stories I read mentioned that President George W. Bush used a lot of religious metaphors and was at times criticized for using such language.
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Fourth time's a charm?
Yesterday I noted a Detroit Free Press story that referred to a Good Friday Mass at a Catholic church. No Mass is celebrated on Good Friday but the service is called the Mass of the Presanctified. So I sort of gave the reporter a pass, even though it violates Associated Press style guidelines.
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Define "Christian;" give three examples (updated)
Please allow me to jump into tmatt’s file of guilt for a moment of confession about a recent news item from Fort Worth, Texas.
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One of these things is not like the other
Journalism can cause some strange pairings simply because two things happen on the same day. World Series games and natural disasters, for example. Often that means that two disparate events end up in the same newspaper, but that doesn’t mean they should be in the same story.
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God is in the details
So often I read a story about some newsmaker and am disappointed when there’s no information about the individual’s religious life. I’ve come to expect that any detail about where, say, heroic pilot Chesley Sullenberger goes to church or doesn’t go to church will be difficult to find — much less any in-depth discussion about what religious or philosophical values may or may not motivate the person.
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Under the gaze of St. Joseph
I must confess that I was pretty harsh, when it came time to pass judgment on that Easter-free front page of the dead-tree-pulp edition of the Sunday Washington Post.
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Telegraphing the culture wars finale
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A good Friday for baseball?
A few years ago, I reviewed the book, “Sunday: A History of the First Day From Babylonia to the Super Bowl,” for the Wall Street Journal. The book devoted quite a bit of time to the history of playing and broadcasting sports on Sunday. It used to be controversial but now, of course, the National Football League practically owns Sundays for part of the year. When my review ran, the number one comment I got from readers was how infuriated they were that their children and grandchildren were expected to practice and play sports on Sunday morning.
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