Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy After making headlines last week with its excitable coverage of Bible verses decorating intelligence briefing cover sheets, GQ has published another story that mentions religion. This time, an 8,700-word profile of CNN’s Larry King touches only briefly, and with minimal understanding, on King’s marriage to Shawn Southwick, an actress, singer — and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Slate’s Jack Schaffer linked to the article as an example of King’s “twisted relationship with his personal history.” Writer Chris Heath quickly runs into a common hazard in journalism: The repackaged anecdote, in which a person attributes direct quotations, of dubious worth, to somebody else: King has yet to become one of those who belatedly embrace faith before the final tally is taken
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Brain farts in GQ
This is one of those cases when the mainstream press cannot be accused of burying the lede. The headline in the New York Times says it all (kind of): “2 Ex-Timesmen Say They Had a Tip on Watergate First .” Wow. We are, after all, dealing with one of the foundational stories in modern American journalism, the creation myth that send a generation of young people racing into journalism schools.
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“God and the Editor”? Tell all!
• Mobs attacks police stations, buses and banks in Punjab region • India’s Sikh prime minister ‘deeply distressed’ by disturbances Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Monday 25 May 2009 17.10 BST India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, appealed for calm , as riots prompted by the fatal shooting of a sect leader at a Sikh temple in Austria spread to several northern Indian cities. Hundreds of people defied a curfew and army patrols, attacking police stations and torching the car of a senior officer and several trains.
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Riots flare in India after Sikh sect leader killed in Austrian temple
Continued from Objection to Biblical Inerrancy #7 An eighth objection is that inerrancy is too complicated . Daniel Day complains that the inerrancy claim prima facie is that there is no error anywhere of any kind, but then its claimants “undermine its claims with exclusions and exceptions so as to permit wiggle room for this or that indisputable finding of science or for some post-biblical social revolution, proving that the initial ground staked out was too high.” [1] Day is talking about Article XIII of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy , a paragraph on the phenomena of Scripture. We affirm the propriety of using inerrancy as a theological term with reference to the complete truthfulness of Scripture
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Objection to Biblical Inerrancy #8
Last week NPR listeners got what some of them pay for — a thoughtful, consistently engaging look at the interdisciplinary field of science, and particularly brain science, and spirituality. Those who listened to Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s five-part series on the “science of spirituality” heard a diverse group of (mostly scientists) ponder the ways in which the brain is affected by spiritual events, including those with hallucenogenic drugs, meditation and near-death experiences
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Mapping God’s “fingerprints”?
When a man walks down the street firing a gun over your head, it is difficult not take it personally. When a dictator with a million-strong army and a well documented dislike for the “imperialist aggressors” of the West, lets off a nuclear weapon, it feels much the same. This sentiment informed foreign reaction to North Korea’s nuclear test yesterday, from Washington to Tokyo to Helsinki: how dare he do this to us?
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North Korea's nuclear message to Kim Jong Il's own hardliners
Most chapters in Explosive Preaching prompt me to think of several posts. Hopefully Boyd-MacMillan will forgive my leaning on his book for ideas so often in recent weeks in exchange for my encouragement to others to buy it for themselves. Chapter 28 in the book is a chapter that stands out as unlike anything I’ve come across in other preaching books (I appreciate that, as I also get feedback that this blog contains things not found in preaching books too!) Success.
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Is It Wrong to Desire Influence?
Want to return to Swat after peace returns Varinder Walia Tribune News Service Members of the DSGMC at Attari-Wagah joint check post after their return from Pakistan on Sunday. Photo: Vishal Kumar Amritsar, May 24 The 13-member Indian delegation, led by Paramjit Singh Sarna, president of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), which returned from Pakistan today after meeting Hindus and Sikhs displaced from the Swat valley, rubbished the media reports that Taliban had imposed jazia (protection tax) on the members of the minority communities there. After meeting the displaced Hindus and Sikhs at Gurdwara Panja Sahib, Hassan Abdal, Sarna said most of the Sikhs did not want to migrate to India since they love Swat, considered paradise on earth.
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Pak Hindus, Sikhs rubbish jazia reports
Punjab tense after night of violence, army called in IANS Towns in Punjab remained tense on Monday morning after a night of violence on Sunday by members of a Dalit Sikh sect protesting a clash in a gurudwara in Austria’s capital Vienna. District authorities in Jalandhar, which saw the maximum violence, requisitioned the army and the Border Security Force (BSF) late on Sunday night even as the Punjab Police was out on the streets in full force to control the rampaging mobs belonging to the Sachh Khand sect, followers of Guru Ravi Dass Sabha.
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Punjab tense after night of violence, army called in
In Rosado v. Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corp., (Ct. Sup. Ct., May 22, 2009, official release date June 2), the Connecticut Supreme Court, over the dissent of Justice Sullivan, granted the requests of 4 newspapers and released some 12,600 pages of documents filed in 23 cases alleging sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy. According to a report on the case by The Day (New London, CT), the documents have been under seal since 2001 when the Diocese of Bridgeport settled the cases. The court held that all documents filed with the court that it could reasonably rely on in support of its adjudicatory function are presumptively open to the public. (Under this rule, only 15 documents in the cases could be kept sealed.) The court also held that the trial court judge properly refused to recuse himself in the case seeking release of the documents. (See prior related posting.)
Source:Connecticut High Court Orders Release of Documents In Clergy Abuse Cases