People who build high-end acoustic guitars (and people like me who just love acoustic guitars) walk around with a lot of very particular sounds in their heads.
Ghost in the Taylor guitar story
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Sarah Palin's 'God Given' talents
I love being a reporter and I think it’s a great profession and that many reporters do invaluable work. I don’t think anyone’s going to say our proudest moments are involved with the bizarre and bizarrely thorough investigation into former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s email correspondence. But the Washington Post and New York Times — along with more overtly partisan outfits such as Mother Jones, ProPublica and msnbc.com — have teams of reporters digging through each and every one of the 13,000 emails that were released late last week.
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First Episcopal parish to head to Rome?
Flash back a few years and you may remember all of those big headlines about the controversial decision by Pope Benedict XVI to park Vatican tanks on the lawn of Canterbury Cathedral and, thus, begin an ecclesiastical invasion of England. Click here for a refresher course.
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Removed from worship
Churches handle special needs children in different ways, some large enough to create dedicated ministries while others look at it on a case-by-case basis. As Bobby mentioned earlier, some churches can’t handle children with special needs and end up either subtly or explicitly rejecting them.
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Insert conservative Christian cliche here
Maybe you’ve heard: Conservative Christian voters are going to be a big deal in the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
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Love thy neighbor
I’m always yammering on about how much I wish the mainstream media would cover stories dealing with the day-to-day lives of religious adherents. The problem with these stories, of course, is that it can be difficult to find stories that are newsy or terribly exciting.
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Big hole in the Big Easy?
Back in March, we did a couple of posts — here and here — on news coverage of a Catholic high school in New Orleans embroiled in controversy over corporal punishment and deeper issues.
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The Bible tells me so
CNN.com features a story about popular phrases that are wrongly attributed to the Bible. At the time I’m writing this, it has 111 pages of comments. That’s like 6,200 comments. And to think that editors sometimes wonder if religion stories have enough appeal.
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Watch out for Orthodox typos!
In a way, it just isn’t fair to criticize the reporters and editors who work in small and even midsized newspapers. They often are forced, by the facts on the ground, to be journalistic jacks of all trades to a degree that is often staggering. It is rare to have experienced people working on specialty beats (except, of course, for stories involving religion — oh, sorry, I meant to say sports).
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