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Last week I mentioned that I’d been the unlucky recipient of an intimate encounter with a TSA agent. As many more Americans have undergone the “how’s your father” with the agents, stories have been getting out about Americans wondering how much of this is security versus security theater. Here’s one mom’s story. Here’s Penn Jillette’s account.
For the past day or so, I have been reading the coverage of the somewhat surprising election of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. At this point, I have to admit that I am confused about the various labels that I am reading.
Most of the drama surrounding Dancing With the Stars involves Bristol Palin, daughter of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Bristol led last night’s stunning upset in Dancing With the Stars when she beat Brandy, who has topped of the leader board for several weeks. If you think DWTS is just a TV show, consider this report: A Wisconsin man enraged over Palin’s routine shot his television with a shotgun.
I’m the first to pounce on stories making fun of people advocating abstinence before marriage. And there have been many examples of such stories over the years. So I had to highlight — and praise — this Washington Post article that looks at the nuptials of one couple that abstained from premarital relations.
It’s not from the Los Angeles Times’ religion reporter, but the paper has here a well-done story heavy on religious themes.
OK, this is going to be a story that is buried in online debate about the labeling of the different candidates, including the winner, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York.
Genuinely shocking news out of Baltimore, where the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has a new president and it isn’t the mainstream progressive candidate, Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tuscon, the sitting vice president. The Associated Press already has a short story out on this and GetReligion will be following the coverage.
A few years ago, Newsweek‘s Lisa Miller attempted to argue that the Bible didn’t really have much to say on marriage, except that it should include same-sex partnerships. In the first paragraph of the theologically illiterate and snark-infested piece, she asked “Would any contemporary heterosexual married couple–who likely woke up on their wedding day harboring some optimistic and newfangled ideas about gender equality and romantic love–turn to the Bible as a how-to script?”
As you would expect, I spend a very high percentage of my time surrounded by religious believers of various kinds — especially academic leaders from the middle of the evangelical Protestant world (and Eastern Orthodox folks from my own parish).
