Getting It All Wrong
The other day The Revealer was on a radio show with an otherwise very clever journalist who noted that far more people believe in the virgin birth than believe in evolution. What Continue Reading →
Tag: religion writing
What We Don't Know, and Why
Religiously Ignorant Journalists By Christian Smith Today I received a phone message from a journalist from a major Dallas newspaper who wanted to talk to me about a story he Continue Reading →
Journalism is Itself a Religion
A Theological Investigation By Jay Rosen “In my view, journalism is a secular enterprise, and there is no specifically Catholic way to do it,” writes John L. Allen Jr, Vatican correspondent for The Continue Reading →
Journalism is Itself a Religion
A Theological Investigation By Jay Rosen “In my view, journalism is a secular enterprise, and there is no specifically Catholic way to do it,” writes John L. Allen Jr, Vatican correspondent for The Continue Reading →
Writing My Religion
Great journalism requires both skepticism and empathy. So how does a believer — or an atheist — write about belief? Theories, frustrations, bright ideas, examples, and fatwas welcome here.
And Then There Was One
Jesus is second only to Hitler in terms of units sold when it comes to moving newsweeklies, but that hasn’t stopped U.S. News and World Report from firing religion writer Jeff Sheler. That leaves Time‘s David Van Continue Reading →
And Then There Was One
Jesus is second only to Hitler in terms of units sold when it comes to moving newsweeklies, but that hasn’t stopped U.S. News and World Report from firing religion writer Jeff Sheler. That leaves Time‘s David Van Continue Reading →
Rant du Jour
Orion isn’t classified as a religion magazine, but it should be. Its mix of eco-notions and ideas, romanticization of the simple life, and assaults on the vulgarity of mass cult mark Continue Reading →