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I have mixed feelings about newspapers conducting their own polls. On on hand, it seems too easy: conduct a poll, interpret the data and you have a story. On the other hand, it allows them to quickly pounce on a story in the news that scholars might not touch for several years.
As it turns out, the Times Square bomb may not have been set by someone who was mad about Obamacare.
The accolades are pouring in for Brian Huff, a veteran Detroit police officer killed in the line of duty Monday. From the earliest news reports, Huff’s strong faith came into play.
If there is any person in American life who symbolizes the whole “spiritual” vs. “religious” storyline, that person would, for me, have to be Oprah Winfrey.
The Associated Press has a story about three Church of England bishops who traveled to Rome last week to discuss the possibility of joining with the Catholic Church:
As the old saying goes, there are two kinds of people in the world. There are people who think that there are only two kinds of people in the world and people who do not think that there are only two kinds of people in the world. I once shared that one-liner on one of my son’s clever high-school friends and she dryly replied: “What about the people who just don’t care?” Good point.
A few weeks ago, The Miami Herald‘s executive editor Anders Gyllenhaal had high praise for one of his many reporters. He noted that–like many religion reporters–as many people were on vacation during Holy Week and Passover, Jaweed Kaleem was at his busiest.
Every reporter has his off days. I have to think that’s what happened with this story, which ran on page 1 of Jacksonville’s Florida Times-Union. Written by an award-winning religion reporter, Jeff Brumley, the piece seems to take an almost personal interest in disparaging evangelicals. It’s kind of odd. Here’s the headline:
A reader alerted us to the airing of a PBS Frontline documentary on “The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan”. I had the chance to watch it earlier in the week and it is absolutely riveting. You can watch it online and I encourage you to do so if it has already aired in your market.
