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I recently attended John Piper’s Desiring God gathering in Minneapolis, and yes, the Reformed crowd there was pretty alive and well, and the crowd seemed particularly young for a conference.
You may have heard that we are convinced that many folks in the mainstream press just don’t “get religion.” Right?
Before we discuss a new story about problems at President Obama’s faith-based office, a bit of context.
I don’t know about you, but I had assumed that the spiritual leaders of the trapped miners in Chile would be Catholics. That was true of some, but not all.
We’ve written before about cartoon controversies at the Washington Post. There was this anti-Pentecostal cartoon from 2008. And then there was his anti-Israeli cartoon depicting a fanged Star of David being pushed by a headless, goosestepping soldier. Subtle.
If you haven’t heard yet, Glee tried to drum up a bit of controversy last week by focusing the episode on religion. The provocative show regularly takes stereotypes to the extreme, and last week’s show was no exception. Nicole Neroulias has a nice roundup–essentially, one of the main characters discovered that his burnt grilled-cheese sandwich looked like Jesus, inspiring the glee club to sing about faith.
I’m always surprised at how many people don’t know the relationship of yoga to Hinduism. The Washington Post/Newsweek “On Faith” had a piece on the topic a few months ago. In “The Theft of Yoga,” Aseem Shukla, an associate professor in urologic surgery at the University of Minnesota medical school and co-founder and board member of Hindu American Foundation, wrote:
I would like to note that the following post is in no way an endorsement of the decision by a Colorado woman to smash up a piece of alleged modern art.
