a review of religion and media
Noah Feldman‘s carefully-reasoned essay on the church/state dilemma of American politics, excerpted from his new book, Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem — and What We Should Do About It, Continue Reading →
Prayer Muckraker: Terry Heaton inteviews evangelical leader Brian McLaren on postmodernism, post-colonialism, and what might be called muckraking prayer: “One of the things we’re going to do [in response to Continue Reading →
Episcopal Smackdown!: Is Lauren Winner‘s new book on Real Sex (spoiler: only hetero, married whoopee) actually creeping fundamentalism? Astrid Storm thinks so. Storm, an Episcopal priest, takes on Winner, an Continue Reading →
Sharlet: Spent the morning in an interview with Matthew Wells, a BBC radio reporter who’s been working the evangelical politics beat in America for the sake of worried Europeans. Should Continue Reading →
John Tierney throws some red meat to the mythical red states in his (relatively) new NYT column. Today’s is titled “Laura Bush Talks Naughty,” and man, is it bold — Continue Reading →
Bartholomew reads Agape Press so you don’t have to, and returns to the world with news of the weird writ large: The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools Continue Reading →
Jay Rosen‘s Pressthink features an interesting discussion about a recent New York Times article on some Iraqi bloggers. There was nothing religious about the original article, but the question of what was wrong Continue Reading →
Sharlet: CNN may be global, but it sure sounds provincial this morning. I’m watching in the breakfast room of a Holiday Inn in Salida, Colorado, along with two young families Continue Reading →
Sharlet: CNN may be global, but it sure sounds provincial this morning. I’m watching in the breakfast room of a Holiday Inn in Salida, Colorado, along with two young families Continue Reading →
“‘In a sense we’ve been having Sukkot the last two weeks!’” Florida Jews experience a more literal celebration of Sukkot, a holiday that traditionally calls on them to dwell in Continue Reading →