Tearing down an Arabic Sign, again, for no reason

I know that I have mentioned, in the past, that my family was part of a predominately Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian parish in South Florida during the dark weeks right after 9/11. I remember, for example, that one young Orthodox boy was attacked in a public-school playground because he was an Arab — with his gold baptismal cross hanging around his neck.


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Pod people: Learning more about the Alevi

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On this week’s Crossroads, host Todd Wilken and I spoke about media coverage of the Chick-Fil-A protests, the misplaced outrage at CNN when the channel was blamed for something an online commenter had written about the shooting at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the Alawite/Alevi confusion displayed by the New York Times.


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Warping the content of a Vatican 'warning'

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Of all of the things that outsiders do not understand about the journalism business, one of the most important is an all-too-common misunderstanding about who writes the headlines that do so much to shape the perceptions of news consumers.


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Fire on Mount Athos: AP focused on WHAT?!?!

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There is a serious wildfire raging near one of the monasteries on Mount Athos, which is, without challenge, the most important center of Eastern Orthodox spirituality in the world. Few would dispute that this rocky peninsula in Greece is one of the world’s most important religious centers — period.


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