Frappa Stout of The Washington Times wrote a tasty feature story about Burning Man this year, concentrating on the wide variety of believers she found there.
Burning Man's spiritual marketplace
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Elvis never left the church (in his heart)
As I like to mention from time to time, the professionals over at Religion News Service have a digital newsletter in which they send out a link to a “story of the week” that everyone can read if they wish. The sad truth is, it’s hard to find RNS copy online if a particular story does not run over at Beliefnet.
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Gimme some truth®
Lorenza Muñoz of the Los Angeles Times provides a serviceable and evenhanded report on FoxFaith and its effort to exploit the market proven by The Passion of the Christ and by Tyler Perry‘s several films.
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No labels: Power and the Furay
Long ago, before I started writing about religion news, my dream was to be a journalist who covered all forms of music — rock, jazz, classical, folk, you name it. If you have hung around GetReligion for a while, you may know that already.
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The Latin Mass and that 'trio' again
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Latin Mass firestorm just ahead
One of the rare subjects on which conservative and liberal Catholics agree is this one — the work of John L. Allen Jr. of the National Catholic Reporter is must reading about 99 percent of the time. This is especially true, in my opinion, when he tackles complex subjects that require blending an inside-the-Vatican perspective with some understanding of Catholicism in the swinging United States.
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A scandal in St. Louis
Singer Sheryl Crow has been in the news recently for her confrontation with Karl Rove and her thoughts that we all need to use less toilet paper. But it was a local story out of St. Louis that caught my attention. Religion reporter Tim Townsend writes in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about a trip the singer was making to St. Louis to raise money for a Catholic hospital that helps children with cancer.
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Rolling Stone's State of the Union
The first of three 40th-anniversary issues of Rolling Stone is on newsstands now, and it is overflowing with the witty Q&A interviews that make the magazine frequently worthwhile. There’s the requisite kissing of founder Jann S. Wenner’s ring, as nearly every interview involves a moment when an artist describes how important a role the magazine played in wide cultural transformation. The next 40th-anniversary issue will focus on the Summer of Love, and I can imagine people discussing how many times a stray Rolling Stone on the coffee table helped them get laid.
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Hymns for people who don't like hymns
Susan Stamberg of National Public Radio recently sent an audio valentine to singer-songwriter Susan Werner of Chicago. Werner’s latest recording is The Gospel Truth, which NPR described as gospel music for agnostics and (in a less accurate headline for its website) “A Songwriter’s View from the Pew.”
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