OK, try to forget the burkinis controversy for a minute. It seems that this is not the hottest swimwear controversy in France this summer.
Secular modesty rages in France
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Why can't we be friends?
I’ve just returned from a vacation in Colorado and am catching up on the news of the past few days. I’m pleased by the amount of coverage we’re seeing of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s recent convention, although the depth of the articles varies wildly. Some are fantastic and cover a lot of ground and some are somewhat lacking.
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Twin rocking chairs for gay Lutherans?
If you were looking for cutting-edge discussions of gay theology back in the 1980s, all you had to do was head on over to the Iliff School of Theology, the United Methodist campus attached to the University of Denver. As one former faculty member of the university once told me, Iliff in that era was “the most liberal institution in American that still called itself Christian.”
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No melodrama please, we're Amish
As most American denominations have more or less accommodated themselves to the culture around them, the Amish and their countercultural ways have remained a topic of fascination to their fellow citizens. Only a 20-minute drive from where my family lives, Lancaster County has made an industry of Amish life — some Amish participate in reaching out to tourists who want to vicariously experience Amish life.
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Nope, no faith issues in INDIA
While I was in India earlier this summer, I heard a journalist make an interesting comment about the omnipresent role that religion plays these days in that amazing, growing, almost exploding country.
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When a conservative skips church
The impression we get from this New York Times profile of the other Ted Olson — that’s conservative legal mind Theodore Olson, not Christianity Today managing editor Ted Olsen — is that you’ve got to skip Sunday school if you want to think independently on the subject of same-sex marriage.
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Stubborn facts on Episcopalians
Jon Meacham has occasionally cited John Adams as saying facts are stubborn things, but apparently some facts aren’t stubborn enough to be noticed by Newsweek under Meacham’s editing.
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Who ya callin' a liar?
We haven’t seen a bill voted out of the House of Representatives yet, but the culture war about health care reform is in full tilt, with allegations from conservatives that bills will include federal funding for abortions — not to mention “death panels” that will chose who will live, and who will die.
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The prince of middle America?
If there is anything that unites most professional journalists, it is a love affair with what most of us call the “killer quote.” This is not a quotation that literally kills someone, although I have seen a quotations that all but killed someone’s career.
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