So a man named John Stott died last week. Sure, he was no Amy Winehouse, but the English pastor, theologian, intellectual and author was kind of a big deal for global evangelicalism.
Evangelist blowhards
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GetReligionistas hit a perfect storm
It’s summer and, at some point, people’s lives are going to line up wrong, schedules are going to go crazy and the result is a perfect storm that threatens to shut things down.
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Breaking discoveries from third century?
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Devil is in the (religious) details
A Twitter post by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, voicing frustration with the budget deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama did just that:
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Times and Catholics: Call to journalistic action
Once again, we face the same question when discussing a New York Times news feature about the Church of Rome.
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Auspicious start to Ramadan coverage
Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, began yesterday. During the month, participating Muslims refrain from eating or drinking during daylight hours. Muslims believe Ramadan was the month during which the first verses of the Koran were revealed to the Islamic prophet Mohammed. The month is based on the Islamic lunar calendar and moves back about 11 days each year. So I guess that’s why it seems to come earlier each year.
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Where's the grass-roots reporting?
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About Baltimore, bullying and St. Paul's School
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Breivik, Bin Laden and moral equivalency
Normally we like to look at news treatment, as opposed to opinion pieces, related to religion. But there were two analysis items from this weekend that were worth considering. The first came from the New York Times and was written by Thomas Hegghammer, a Norwegian expert on Islamist violence. It’s helpful for those of us trying to analyze how to define this rather idiosyncratic terrorist.
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