I’m talking about a newspaper feature that neither ignores faith nor exaggerates it in painting the portrait of its main characters.
A natural extension of couple's love
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Pod People: For how many did Jesus die?
For this week’s Crossroads podcast, I spoke with host Todd Wilken about media coverage of changes to the Roman Catholic liturgy. One of the things I keep reflecting on, and I know we shouldn’t praise that which should be done, is that I really do think the level of coverage was a good thing. So often we see major issues in the lives of religious adherents that are completely under the radar of many in the media.
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Interracial couples and Baptist 'hierarchy'
Over at Yahoo! News â one of the most visited sites in the online universe â the third and fourth most popular items at this moment relate to a tiny Kentucky church voting to ban interracial couples from joining the flock.
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Mocking unfaithful Heathens
The Village Voice is getting a bit of notice for a recent feature going after Republican New York City Councilman Dan Halloran. That the Village Voice might take issue with a Republican city councilman is not surprising. But one of its angles of attacks is. To see what I mean, let’s begin with the headline:
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On Egypt: Trying to predict the future votes
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Evolution and Islam
The Daily Mail has brought to its readers’ attention a timely twist to the conflict between faith and science. The article: “Muslim medical students boycotting lectures on evolution… because it ‘clashes with the Koran’,” reports the tensions felt by Muslim medical students who are divided between adherence to their faith and the pursuit of their profession.
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All the cool kids in the NYTs
Another day, another article about a religious group trying to be hip. It’s the third article in about a month that The New York Times has noted hipster and religion trends. Again, the premise of its latest piece is that religion is not hip so it’s noteworthy when a group finds a way to pull it off.
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On the campaign trail: Bad Dad?
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Transmasculine punkers are the new Judaism
Not too long ago, when the New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a supportive profile of a sex-positive sex-ed teacher, Rod Dreher wrote about the magazine’s obsession “with sex and sexuality, and of course always, always, always from a progressive point of view.” He listed some of the “sexual-liberationist” stories they’d done this year.
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