Time‘s Bonnie Rochman says pastor John Voelz “was down with Twitter before most people knew it was a proper noun.”
Time's Twitter text (in 18 tweets)
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Bob Dylan as jokerman
From historian Douglas Brinkley’s profile of Bob Dylan in the May 14 Rolling Stone (available online only in the smallest snippets):
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The fantasticks
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Keeping up with the "none" crowd
I meant to put a link up to this fascinating little essay earlier, but forgot in the blitz that is the final week of the semester at the Washington Journalism Center.
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We need a better torture discussion
Yesterday we saw quite a bit of coverage of new Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life analysis which had — to the many who read it splashed across the interweb, cable television, and newspapers — some shocking results. Here’s CNN, for instance:
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I love you, you love me
Time‘s latest list of the world’s 100 most influential people is a frustrating exercise. I’ve praised this list before, but that was in a year (2007) when religion attracted 17 references. This year’s list makes me more sympathetic to the argument that Time‘s categories of influential people — Leaders & Revolutionaries, Builders & Titans, Artists & Entertainers, Heroes & Icons and Scientists & Thinkers — make it too easy to ignore spiritual leaders.
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Oh my, L-word used for Souter
I can hardly believe it. Here inside the Beltway (and the elite media that are honorary members of the Beltway tribe), it is very rare to hear a person tagged with THE L-WORD.
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Aiming for accuracy
Earlier this week, Elizabeth opened a discussion about what standards religion journalism blogs should be held to. Some mainstream reporters insert quite a bit of personal opinion while others retain their journalistic distance. Some use the blogs as a means of unloading information that couldn’t make it into brief stories. Many use a slightly more personal tone.
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The return of Jewish prayer
As the perceptive people at the blog Jewschool note, the article in Wednesday’s Washington Post on alternative prayer services was smartly done but it did not advance the story much beyond a New York Times article on the same subject in 2007. Here is the lead of the Post story:
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