You gotta admit, this has been a strange week for the media.
Canadian virus: Mass confusion
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Episcopal timeline disease, again (repeat)
When you are talking about the history of the Anglican wars, you really have to remember that it’s really about the bishops.
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Look us up on Twitter
GetReligion reader Barbara Kolbe recently gave us the nudge we required to create a Twitter feed. Despite my earlier mockery of encouraging Christians to tweet during worship services, I (and my colleagues) recognize Twitter’s inescapable importance in today’s media landscape.
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How to mourn a sinner?
Can you imagine learning that your spouse, the father of your four children, was cheating on you? Can you imagine learning that little tidbit because his mistress killed him? It’s just horrifying and my heart goes out to the family of Tennessee Titan great Steve McNair.
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Just another painful school closing
I forget when and where it was in which, as a reporter, I heard a stunning lecture on the impact of birthrates and basic demographics on the rise and fall of religious institutions in the United States and elsewhere.
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Leaving God at Jackson's funeral
Living in Los Angeles, it has been easy to think that for the past two weeks there has been no news but Michael Jackson news. The King of Pop has reigned supreme over nightly newscasts and Internet rumors and A1 centerpieces. So I was more than a bit surprised to survey other major West Coast newspapers last night and find that most didn’t even bother sending a reporter to the Staples Center to cover Jackson’s larger-than-life memorial service.
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Bigger than Jesus, indeed
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Civil religion and St. Michael, the pop angel
For generations, presidential inaugurations have served as the high holy days of civil religion for scholars studying the intersection of faith and public life. Want to know about the lowest-common-denominator faith that unites the muddy middle of the American marketplace of ideas? Dissect the religious language that presidents use when standing at that big pulpit on Day One.
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Heralding the King ... of Pop
Associated Press music writer Nekesa Mumbi Moody praised the “poignant and serene” memorial service for Michael Jackson:
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