Last week evangelical activist Jim Wallis said that the dominance of the religious right in American politics has ended. He appeared on The Daily Show
Peter Steinfels, the co-director of the Fordham Center for Religion and Culture, has a fun post on the Commenweal website that “predicts” the big religion stories in 2008.
Religion writers recently named their top ten religious news stories of the year. Their list differs from Time Magazines’ top ten. The Anglican Journal notes:
If you missed it, the Queen’s Christmas message is available at the Royal Channel on YouTube, also known as WeTube. YouTube has also become a
Phyllis Tickle is featured in this week’s article from syndicated columnist Terry Mattingly. Citing the “500 year wall,” he summarizes Tickle’s recent discussion of all the capital-letter, civilization-rearranging events in history and their tendency to happen about every half-millennium or so: The Reformation, the Great Schism, the Fall of the Roman Empire.
Fox Entertainment Group has successfully acquired Beliefnet.com, which is generally regarded as providing “interesting, multi-faith religion content,” as DallasNews blogger Jeffrey Weiss puts it.
(Updated) A movie based on the first book of a trilogy whose author says “My books are about killing God” is about to hit the
2007 may be recorded as a pivotal year for religion and politics — relatively quiet, unremarkable at first glance, but nonetheless significant as a harbinger of things to come. “There are a lot of discrete things, but if you put them all together, you get the sense that change is in the air,” said John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
If you follow religion news on the Web, you may already know about the Dallas Morning News’ excellent blog (although you may not know that blogger Sam Hodges is the author of the hilarious novel B-4.) Now Tom Henaghan and other Reuters reporters have launched a lively new blog called Faith World. We don’t know if Tom has written a hilarious novel, but will give him equal time if he has.
The 12th Season of CBS TV’s Amazing Race was broadcast last night, Sunday, November 4th 2007. It starts with 11 teams traveling all over the