GetReligion readers likely are familiar with John Allen, the National Catholic Reporter ’s ace Vatican reporter. His latest column analyzes the biggest Vatican stories of the last 10 years . An aside: is anyone else annoyed at all of these “best of decade” lists coming a year prior to the end of the actual decade?
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What Catholic media bias?
I’ve stretched out the lessons I noted from watching a low budget film to three posts. We’ve considered the importance of speech, the challenge of natural speech in unnatural circumstances (like preaching), the need for less important lines, and the importance of historical/cultural details in the telling of an historic story. Two more lessons for us, one potentially overwhelming and one hopefully very encouraging! 5. The je ne sais quoi of engaging the audience. What makes the listener or viewer sit forward?
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Final Preaching Lessons from a Low Budget Film
Ten years ago, as the countdown to a new millennium reached its final stages, some people believed that we were hours away from Armageddon. In fact we had a reprieve.
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The world seems more dangerous. But is it?
Miss Smilla had a feeling for snow. She used it in Peter Høeg’s novel to track down a murderer, and could discourse on its molecular composition at great length. My own feeling for the stuff is a bit more tangible
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Like Miss Smilla, I now have a feeling for snow
I had not realised, before landing at Lilongwe in Malawi, how conveniently placed was the African village from which Madonna has chosen her second child for adoption. Right by the airport.
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No local difficulty about Madonna and child
Next week Dubai formally opens the highest thing yet built, the next generation of skyscraper: the heavenscraper. At 818m, about 2,684ft (or thereabouts, secrecy on this subject being part of its artificial mystique) it will be both the tallest man-made structure, and the tallest inhabited building, on the planet. At least for the time being.
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Towering ambition always comes before a fall
In bombed-out, blockaded, wartime Britain, Winston Churchill is recorded as having insisted on two things: daffodils must make it from the Isles of Scilly, and women must have a sporting chance of acquiring a bit of slap.
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Lipstick and daffodils won’t save Britain now
Love ‘em or loathe ‘em, and there seems to be little in between, 2009 was a remarkable year for Fox News Channel. Despite being ensnared in seemingly weekly controversies involving accusations that its coverage of the Obama administration was laced with right-wing political bias, the year-end numbers are in, and they show Fox News establishing dominance over rivals CNN and MSNBC
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Fox News Channel establishes ratings dominance over rivals in 2009 (The Newsroom via Yahoo! News)
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Kadron Boone walked off the practice field Wednesday, headed for lunch. On the way, a pair of reporters stopped Texas Tech’s highest ranked recruit and asked him if he’d heard the news
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Andy Staples: Strangest coaching news in years rocking recruiting world (Sports Illustrated)
As captain of the passenger ship Exodus, Yitzhak Aharonovitch played a crucial role in an event that came to symbolise the Jewish struggle for a homeland.
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Yitzhak Aharonovitch: captain of the the Holocaust survivor ship Exodus