God TV
“‘It is God’s sovereign time for the East Coast of America. He has planned such a radical move of The Holy Spirit from here, it will impact the Americas and Continue Reading →
Tag: religion and media
The Geena Factor
Two responses to ABC’s new drama, Commander in Chief. Part I: Hair, Hemlines and History Can the media move past the novelty of a female president? By Marissa Kantor Too Continue Reading →
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ghosts
For network TV executives torn between reported demands for more Godly programming for the believers’ market, and the competing logic that airing overtly religious sitcoms and dramas could land them Continue Reading →
How the New Yorker Makes Rick Warren Safe for Secular Consumption
By J.J. Helland Too often, the media views the subject of religion in America as a strictly sociological study. Faith is to be interpreted on economic, political and cultural terms Continue Reading →
Crossing Over With Amy Grant
NBC gets religion. Sort of. By Nicole Greenfield There’s always a lot of hype surrounding a new TV series, even when it’s just another indistinguishable reality show. The most recent Continue Reading →
Our New Deal
This past summer, I announced that The Revealer‘s foundation funding had come to an end. But that doesn’t mark its death. Starting this fall — now — The Revealer takes Continue Reading →
Boston Globe Draws Battle Lines Over Blurry Terrain
Sarah Price Brown observes: When Michael Paulson wrote in The Boston Globe a few days ago about a Vatican investigation into homosexuality in seminaries, he framed the issue plainly. The Continue Reading →
Other New Orleans
New Orleans may be a city “where old-time religion and voodoo converge,” as the NYT’s Michael Brick puts it, but so far the Katrina coverage — heavy on prayers and Continue Reading →
Heavens Above! (Politics Below)
Nick Street asks why Christian conservative media is so literally down to earth. Does Pat Robertson dig the Hubble Space Telescope as much as I do? Not hardly. In fact, Continue Reading →
Cracking the Code's Controversy?
Nellie Day: Kentucky’s Messenger-Inquirer, like many other American papers, tries to present an unbiased look at the soon-to-be film version of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. Instead, Karen Owen Continue Reading →