Here’s an interesting piece of church-crisis communications advice: Don’t take your story to the press. In fact, don’t even try to answer their questions.
Baptist pro: Don't meet the press, unless you want to
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Hey journalists: Please look up 'fetus' in a dictionary
Once again, let us return to the dictionary and ponder why some journalists in our age are having trouble using a basic scientific term that has become all too common in our news.
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The BBC and the perils of press releases
The BBC’s internet news division stumbled badly this week in its initial report on a major meeting of Anglican church leaders in Africa. The 20 October 2013 story entitled “Archbishop of Canterbury makes Kenya detour on way to Iceland” has already had one correction and substantial alteration but the underlying premise of the story remains flawed.
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Is it time for the old Mainline churches to shed that label?
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AP highlights Obama's eisegesis -- perhaps unwittingly
Without doubt, the job of president of the United States can easily drive someone one to drink — or to his knees in prayer.
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The return of Baylor football, minus all that Baptist and Christian stuff
Way back when I was in college, soon after the cooling of the earth’s crust, the always confident folks at the University of Texas (rivals in the region would use a different adjective) fired an interesting salvo at a key rival.
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Another one-sided AP same-sex marriage story
The Associated Press has decided, apparently, that stories need to include only side. Stories about same-sex marriage, that is.
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#OMG! Christians starting to use Twitter -- details at 11!
Anyone who’s been around the news for a while will notice that, from time to time, media outlets will “discover” something that’s been talked about, elsewhere, for quite some time. Nearly 20 years after the online world of AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe began to morph into the Internet as a place where people can find information about God, at last a metropolitan daily newspaper has learned that Christian folk are using Twitter to communicate with each other.
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Lost in mobs, fire, guns and ink: Is Christ of Sinai safe?
At the time of their destruction by the Taliban, what were the Buddhas of Bamiyam worth, in terms of culture, history and money?
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