If your holiday plans include seeing a recent movie, you’ve got a wide range of spiritually themed films to choose from, according to Robert W. Butler of the Kansas City Star.
Movies that move your spirit
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Pew: The state of the states
A new Pew report entitled “How religious is your state?” is giving reporters an opportunity to spell out local angles of national statistics. Meanwhile, a recent Pew study on worldwide religion freedom has generated less coverage.
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NYTimes: 'Oops!' on orphanages?
After publishing a one-sided A1 attack on African orphanages on December 6, The New York Times has now partly corrected its reporting with a shorter A14 story on December 17 that says orphanages may not be so bad after all.
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Cooler temperatures at Air Force Academy
Four years ago, a battle over religion at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs seemed intractable. Now tempers are cooler, according to an Associated Press story by Dan Elliott. Interestingly, the story, “Air Force Academy says religious climate improving,” says one solution to the problem was more religion, not less:
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Brooks on Obama the theologian
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Shopping for religion: Pew view
A Christian friend who knows I am a journalist but tries to love me anyway subscribes to USA Today. After he read Cathy Lynn Grossman’s print and online articles on that latest Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, he asked if I could explain “how this media-stuff works and how headlines are ‘pitched’ different ways for different audiences.”
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Hilarious, holy hugs
Christians can do funny, goofy things. That’s why reaction to a Christian rap group’s video seemingly advocating the sexually chaste “Christian side hug” was so interesting. Apparently, the group was kidding. But that didn’t stop critics and bloggers for missing the joke and getting snarky about it.
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'Bah Humbug” on charities!
December is crunch time for charitable giving, with many nonprofit organizations taking in a third or more of their yearly income during the last month of the year. Perhaps that’s why Sunday’s New York Times featured not one but two A1 stories on charities?
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Pastors and gays in D.C.
Having spent part of the 1990s covering Colorado’s controversial gay rights limitation measure Amendment 2 (which was passed by voters but declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court), I know there are always more than two sides to these debates. That’s part of what makes a recent Washington Post story so intriguing.
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