Purity rings, an Assembly of God church breakup, suit-wearing and pew-sitting. Mandatory attendance on Sunday mornings and fulfilling all expectations.
Joe Jonas unplugged begs for good reporter and editor
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Viva la Eurorévolution
Religion ghosts haunt the stories out of Kiev this week, but the Western press has yet to hear their shrieks.
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'Dozens of pastors' not quoted in front-page story
Readers of The Oklahoman, my hometown newspaper and one-time employer, awoke today to a banner, front-page story on controversy over a play opening in Oklahoma City this week.
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Does God hear prayers from just anyone?
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CNN puts religious liberty in 'scare quotes,' but corrects it
It was one of the most famous First Amendment cases in American history. As the American Civil Liberties Union website notes:
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AP's not-too-religious airport chaplain story
The entire long Thanksgiving weekend, it’s widely reported, is the busiest air-travel season in the United States. So, it’s not too difficult to imagine human interest stories about life in and around major airports, which The Associated Press rightly declares are “mini-cities” with a life and culture all their own, right down to a local church or, in most cases, an interfaith chapel.
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A religion ghost in the healing power of hoops?
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As on a darkling plain - Prozac and France
The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
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Pod people: The Los Angeles Times cheers for United Methodist 'reform'
If readers want to know where The Los Angeles Times stands on the issues the loomed over the United Methodist Church trial of the Rev. Frank Schaefer, all they have to do is read one summary passage in a recent update.
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