Greetings, to the readers of GetReligion.org. As some of you may already know, Terry Mattingly and Doug LeBlanc have asked me to join this blog as one of its writers. I want to thank him for this opportunity and have been asked to say a few words about myself. I am a recent graduate of Butler […]
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I have been missing in action today, but for a reason. It was my first day working at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities on the project now called the Washington Journalism Center. It’s a full-semester journalism education program growing out of the decade-long Summer Institute of Journalism (some info here).This is the […]
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With this post I take my leave of GetReligion. Terry Mattingly should be along either later today or early tomorrow to announce further changes. I’m skedaddling to devote time to a book-in-progress about hypocrisy, which should land in finer retail outlets next year. Don’t know if I’ll be back to these cyber pages but […]
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This week, The Christian Science Monitor interviewed Senator Rick Santorum as part of his new book tour. And the excerpt is just lame. I mean, I’m glad to know that the Rt. Hon. Sen. is “absolutely not” bothered that he is a polarizing figure, that he has “never really worried” about winning his next race, […]
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I don’t mean to be snarky about this, and I don’t think that all Godbeat stories must be driven by some statistical formula, but does anyone else thing this major feature story in the New York Times is a little bit strange? The headline is sweeping: “A Guiding Light Leaves His Church in a […]
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Just a quick update on an ongoing topic. There is an interesting essay in the Wall Street Journal about Catholicism, John Roberts, Sen. Richard Durbin and St. Thomas More — sort of in that order. Clearly this topic is going to keep coming up, as demonstrated by Jeremy with this post yesterday and Doug with […]
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Anthony Grafton, a professor of history at Princeton University, has written a thoughtful summary of Pope Benedict XVI’s writings (The New Yorker, July 25). I apologize for my delay in mentioning this essay — it never appeared on The New Yorker’s website, and the paper edition often reaches my home rather late in the publication […]
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The nomination of Judge John Roberts is driving some Democrats to distraction because he is probably ultimately un-Borkable. As my colleague Gene Healy wrote, Roberts selling points include “[g]reat grades, stellar resume, nice posture, nice smile, [and] no doubt a firm handshake. But where he stands on anything is anyone’s guess. What we’ve got […]
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You had to know that this was coming. During the days before the conclave in which Pope Benedict XVI was elected, many commentators predicted that this would be the papacy that furthered the transition to the “global Christianity” reflected by many of the appointments made by Pope John Paul II. Well, that’s true. But there are […]
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Hey, our home DSL is finally working. Time to do some catching up. Here is a little essay about Charles Colson that the New York Times ran the other day. Part of me wonders if this is part of the newspaper of record’s attempt to deal with more countercultural and “radical” segments of American life — […]
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