In Ecclesiastes 12:12b, we read: “Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.”
CNN goes long to say little about clergy and Obamacare
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Pod people: Stopping in again at the Death Café
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That holy ghost in Baylor head coach's guilt and grief
Right now, Baylor University coach Art Briles is one of the hottest leaders in college football, the creator of the hottest offense in around. Last night, the No. 6 Bears clawed the No. 10 Oklahoma Sooners to the tune of 41-12, even while losing three of their top four players on offense to injuries of various kinds.
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General Butt Naked and God in Der Spiegel
Let me commend for your reading a story in last week’s Der Spiegel on the Liberian war lord General Butt Naked. The article in its English-language version entitled “The Penitant Warlord: Atoning for 20,000 War Crimes” recounts the war crimes of Joshua Milton Blahyi and his subsequent transformation into a priest.
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Surprise! A same-sex marriage story that gets religion
For the latest Christian Chronicle, I wrote a news story on judicial authorities in the Pacific Northwest state of Washington formally admonishing a superior court judge â also a Church of Christ elder â for voicing his preference not to perform same-sex marriages.
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This is praise: USA Today church-state story was confusing
Welcome back to the First Amendment wars, an increasingly active front in our nation’s Culture Wars. Yesterday was a big church-state day at the U.S. Supreme Court, with the justices hearing testimony on the Town of Greece v. Galloway — yet another case centering on prayer in public life.
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Still another one-sided same-sex marriage story
A major media organization has published still another one-sided story on the religious debate over same-sex marriage.
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Grossman's blog is back: Faith & Reason 2.0 at RNS
One of the first signs that the religion beat was in trouble at USA Today was the decision to shutter veteran scribe Cathy Grossman’s “Faith & Reason” weblog.
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A dynamic, hip, inked leader offers salvation to the left
It says a lot, in this financially tight age in American newsrooms, when editors put a reporter on an airplane and send her halfway across the nation to hear somebody preach.
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