Kevin Eckstrom of Religion News Service has a new piece out that I found in the Winston-Salem paper.
A snippet:
Bob Thompson, a television and pop-culture expert at Syracuse University, agrees. Thompson said that part of the show’s controversy is that TV generally avoids religion like one of the seven deadly sins, but it can only succeed when people on both sides of the screen take it seriously.
“A show that deals with flawed human beings trying to come to grips with a relationship with God is worth doing on TV simply because it’s not done very often,” he said.