Catching up to the 21st century, Episcopal churches are making videos, podcasting sermons, and otherwise taking the initiative to broadcast the “good news” of life in the church using the internet.
The Rev. Jan Nunley, the Episcopal Church’s deputy for communications, has picked apart a sensationalistic story in The New York Times that may have left readers with the false impression that a man who left the adult film industry six months ago is on the fast track toward becoming a priest.
“Whether writing about a presidential aspirant’s latest play of the religion card, or an emerging issue being championed by a special interest group, or a poll showing that this community of faith supports that candidate, my goal is to write with an acute awareness of how religious and political passion can obscure and cloud … good judgment, moral reasoning, and analytical clarity.”
The New York Times examines Hillary Clinton’s faith, and offers a one-sided view of a parish conflict in Connecticut where, to read Alison Leigh Cowan, you would conclude that conservatives are the only ones who read Scripture, or have an emotional attachment to their faith.
In the Anglican blogosphere, and in the media at large, the left is always calling upon the right to adopt a more civil tone. And vice versa. The most recent case in point involves a dispute between the conservative commentator Ann Coulter, and Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the Democratic presidential candidate.
The world may be flat, as Thomas Friedman, argues, but much of the infomation we receive is filtered through a corporatized media, hierarchical institutions, and politically movitaved interest groups. Americans receive little information about other countries directly from the people who live there. But that is changing
Deviancy! Immorality! Racism! If you read enough of the papers—not to mention the bloggers– this is what one might think the Episcopal Church stands for.
CNN catches up with Goth Eucharists in England and the U2charist in the U.S. in this surprisingly snark-free three minute segment. For the record, it’s
Get Religion is a Web site devoted to analyzing the media’s coverage of religion. It is bankrolled by Howard Ahmanson, who also bankrolls the Institute on Religion and Democracy. But it is home to the astute and fair minded Doug LeBlanc, whose analysis of the recent TIME magazine story on Rowan Williams is well worth reading.
A little over a year ago, David Plotz of Slate set out to write blog entries on the entire Hebrew Bible. This week, some 39