In a report titled “Christian Academics Cite Hostility on Campus,” NPR tackles a perfectly legitimate question:
Hostility toward evangelicals? What hostility?
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A 'lapse' in Catholic style
Well, the battle over same-sex marriage is right where everyone expected it to be at this point. As the New York Times analysis noted, it’s pretty clear that Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s opinion was written to an audience of one.
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Let's get ready to rumble
In a move surprising precisely no one who followed his handling of the case, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker overturned California’s Proposition 8. Something tells me we’ll be looking at media coverage of this story for a while. I’m reading the 138-page ruling now but it will take me a while to get through. Imagine being a reporter on deadline who needs to get a story up as quickly as possible. I may have never said this before when it comes to coverage of Proposition 8 but the Los Angeles Times actually got a lot done in a short period of time, I think. That may be because they had to keep the analysis to a minimum and just get a quick take on the facts out:
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Memory eternal, Father Matthew MacKay
The blogosphere and the wider world of digital social media is such a strange, strange place. It has its own unique joys and sorrows.
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A Methodist, a Jew, a flippant reporter
I was really hoping to avoid another Clinton-Mezvinsky-wedding story after Monday’s discussion of the poor coverage of the Jewish traditions included in the ceremony. Really hoping. It just feels a bit too paparazzo for me.
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That doesn't sound very Lutheran
The Associated Press reported on the return to the pulpit of a Minnesota Lutheran pastor. He’d taken some time off after a gay publication crashed a support meeting for those facing unwanted same-sex attraction. The journalist did so under false pretenses and it created quite a bit of a firestorm because the pastor in question was a vocal opponent of changing church doctrine to affirm homosexuality.
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Return of the Womenpriests
Only yesterday I was happily writing about how great it is when media coverage of a given topic improves over time. But then you read a story like this one from the San Diego Union-Tribune and you wonder if things are actually going downhill.
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When sex offenders go to church
Last year, I wrote a news story for Christianity Today titled “Modern-Day Lepers,” on the effort by churches to balance grace and accountability toward sex offenders:
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So close to a sane prayer wars story
So when it comes to Bible Belt religiosity, is the unique glass that is the city of Asheville, N.C., half empty or half full?
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