The last time Molly Norris was in the news was July. She’s the Seattle cartoonist who responded to censorship of South Park by declaring April 20 to be “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.”
Freedom and intimidation
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Benedict XVI visits the circus
I have always thought that papal trips — especially to lands that stage regular media circuses — are the Olympics of religion news. The big problem, of course, is that the pope is WAY too important to be covered by mere religion-beat professionals. You have to break out the media superstars and political/cultural reporters and that’s where the real fun begins.
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Gay Saudi diplomat fears for life?
So here is your assignment. Read the top of the following story in the Los Angeles Times and try to spot the religion ghost.
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Shouting fire in a crowded theater
The New York Daily News has a brief story about a man who was just fired for a First Amendment protest.
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New Yorker on Christian hipsters
Let me be clear: I am not a hipster. I’ve had black-rim glasses since junior year of high school (12 years) and a beard for almost as long (off and on). But I am a Christian and I have had Christian hipster friends for the past decade, so Brett McCracken’s new book, “Hipster Christianity,” appeals to me.
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Iran's bondage of the press
Pastor Terry Jones’ decision to call off his September 11 Koran burn has not stopped violent protests among some Muslims across the world. A Lutheran church in Pakistan was destroyed by a bomb. Kashmir protests left 13 dead. In Tehran, protesters are calling for the death of Jones.
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John L. Allen, Jr. slaps some wrists
This is one of those cases in which your GetReligionistas are tempted to simply put an item up on this here weblog and say …
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The Fellowship under a microscope
Peter J. Boyer deserves GetReligion’s “rock star religion reporting of the month” award, an honor that I just made up on the spot. In all seriousness, Boyer has produced yet another thoughtful, thorough, compelling piece for The New Yorker, this time on the Fellowship, a secretive religious group inside the DC Beltway. (Earlier, we looked at his piece on Francis Collins.)
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Could it be Satan? How con-VEEN-ient
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