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Tragically, the top news story on this Christmas Day is another outbreak of violence against Christian believers, this time a wave of bombings and terrorism in the highly divided nation of Nigeria.
It’s rare to find a major story that makes liberals as well as conservatives nervous to the point that they hesitate to talk about it. Stories of this kind often fail to find their way into digital or analog ink.
As my friend and I exchanged gifts earlier this week, my appreciation for our friendship grew when she said, “If you don’t like it, you can regift it.” I love a good dose of honesty where there’s no underlying analysis about how much time and money we spent figuring out what to get each other. Instead, we hold a mutual understanding that items we give each other don’t need to reflect the level of closeness we feel.
At most schools (high school or college) there are band types, athletes, drama people, book fanatics, math/science geeks (and proud of it), etc., etc. Sometimes, these groups can overlap, such as the common book/band hybrid or the choir/drama type. I was a book/choir guy.
Well, dang it. I really got my hopes up that the editorial team at The Los Angeles Times was going to write the Crystal Cathedral news feature that I have been waiting with bated breath to read.
A GetReligion reader wrote in with a special request for a look at the media coverage of Vaclav Havel. Havel is a hero of mine and I’d been intending to write something on the media coverage, sort of waiting for that perfect article. Which is never coming.
Thank God that the Broncos lost on Sunday. And we better hope they keep losing if only to save us from the horrors of Tim Tebow Derangement Syndrome. Rabbi Joshua Hammerman wrote a piece so bigoted against Christians that Jewish Week pulled it. Here was a favorite portion:
Is there some kind of “enthusiasm meter” that journalists consult to judge the popularity of a pope? That’s what one reader asked, sending along this Associated Press story. Here’s the headline:
There are times when the BBC is beyond parody. It is so relentlessly awful, biased and reflexively p.c. that many viewers become inured to its excesses. Yet Orla Guerin’s report from Pakistan is quite extraordinary — even for the BBC.
