Few subjects inspire the whole “National Geographic visits the strange natives” school of Godbeat journalism quicker than monasticism.
A quick, shallow visit to Mount Athos
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Pod people: saying goodbye
Friends of GetReligion, it is time for me to tip my hat and say farewell. It’s been a good ride, three years of working with excellent colleagues.
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#RNA2012: Outside a Mormon temple wedding
In a couple of recent posts â here and here â I’ve already highlighted some of the excellent Godbeat journalism that claimed prizes in the Religion Newswriters Association’s annual awards contest.
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Agnostic scout ousted because he's gay?
Anyone who has followed the tensions between gay-rights activists and the Boy Scouts knows that this is a rather tense and highly politicized situation, with obvious freedom-of-association implications for groups on the cultural left and right.
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Yes, you can ask tough questions of pro-choice candidates
Last night was the only Vice Presidential debate we’ll get in this cycle. Almost all of that debate and attendant media coverage is outside the purview of this blog. But right there at the end, the moderator got into religion. Although the answers the candidates gave were interesting, let’s focus simply on the questions from journalist Martha Raddatz:
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Baylor grad pushes app for cheaters?
A long, long time ago, I was a journalism major at Baylor University, which, as you may know, is the world’s largest Baptist university. Baylor is located in Waco, Texas, which many folks in the Lone Star state like to call “Jerusalem on the Brazos.”
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The anti-Semitic focus of French terrorism
You may recall media coverage regarding a kosher market in a suburb of Paris that was bombed last month. There’s been a development in the case. Here’s the New York Times piece “French Investigators Find Bomb-Making Materials“:
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ABC on Jesus the sky pixie
These words close Vladimir Mayakovskyâs 1924 poem “Vladimir Ilych Lenin“.â Written in the months after Leninâs death, âVI Leninâ is the greatest of Mayakovskyâs works and the apex of the socialist realist style of poetry that flowered in Russia in the decade after the Revolution. “VI Lenin” is also the template through which some in the press construct the person and works of Jesus Christ
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#RNA2012: Godbeat's 'Susan Lucci' takes second place
At the Religion Newswriters Association’s annual awards dinner Saturday night, Abe Levy of the San Antonio Express-News jokingly referred to himself as the “Susan Lucci of the RNA.”
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