a review of religion and media
By Maurice Chammah “Port Said, once the pariah, is now the vanguard. As the protests turn to street battles, Port Said’s traditional independence from the rest of the country is coming out in a way it never has before.” Continue Reading →
Back from the Great Divide! Welcome to the fall, and a host of stuff you should be reading right now. Continue Reading →
The best and most prominent reminder of the diversity of American Christian thought arrived on the New York City mayor’s desk this week, in the form of a petition with 62,000 signatures. It was written by that epicenter of hate speech, The Family Research Council (and City Councilman Fernando Cabrera, a Bronx pastor). FRC’s beef? That the ceremony at the World Trade Center tomorrow will not include pastors or priests. Each year, in a ceremony format now a decade old, moments of silence break up the hours-long reading of names of those who died. Representatives from across the religious spectrum attend. But the petitioners want explicit prayers and they want them from their own leaders. Continue Reading →