It’s easy to guess that the financial crisis sweeping the country will affect the bottom line for many, if not most, religious groups.
Giving when it hurts
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Lite in the darkness
In a recent USA TODAY story, Cathy Lynn Grossman tracks an interesting trend: the flourishing of Advent prayers and celebrations among non-liturgical Christians.
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Obama apocalypse (again)
Journalists are often impelled to indulge in navel-gazing at the ping of an incoming email. One topic we tend to chew on, like a cow masticating her cud, is: do we display bias? Our second favorite: are we as bad as those other guys?
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A Colbert Christmas
You might think that the debut of his Christmas special was as good a time as any for journalists to explore the beliefs of Stephen Colbert, one of television’s most vocal comedians, and 2008 Presidential candidate who disappointed millions (thousands? his immediate family?) by being forced to drop out of the race in South Carolina last year (go on and laugh –but who could have envisioned Minnesota’s Al Franken?).
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Coming to a pub near you?
I don’t know about you, but out here in the Philadelphia exurbs we are in the grip of the kind of crisis that brings the area to its knees– about four more inches of snow than apparently anyone expected.
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Apocalypse ... now?
Remember August (yes, it seems like a long time ago, doesn’t it?) when the McCain campaign produced this Internet ad?
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(No) Mass Exposure?
A few days ago I was trolling through the religion pages of the online version of the Houston Chronicle and I came across a story about the Roman Catholic clergy singing sensation known to their fans as the Priests. Written by John Jurgensen. the story originated at the Wall Street Journal.
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Penning the Archbishop
In my last post, I referred to the notion that many denominations or groups feel that press coverage of them is biased — or that they are particularly singled out for unflattering notice.
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Representing the (outraged) faithful
As most of you probably know, the New York Times has a Public Editor, Clark Hoyt. A veteran newsman, and only the third to serve in this position (created in 2003), Hoyt’s job, in a nutshell, is to (re)present the voice of the New York Times reader.
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