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New podcast: Is SBC President Ed Litton 'woke'? What is a 'conservative' stance on CRT?
I’m not crying. You’re crying. Gracious words from @EdLitton to @AlbertMohler and from Mohler back to Litton.#SBC21 pic.twitter.com/3CFwJH00Ba — Denny Burk (@DennyBurk) June 16, 2021 It certainl...
New podcast: Will SBC politicos answer questions about doctrinal clashes in this new war?
Whether they’ll admit it or not, when covering conflicts and controversies many (not all) journalists seem to think that one of their main duties is to help (wink, wink) readers separate the people in...
New podcast: Among waves of Tulsa Massacre ink, a fine AP religion story pointed forward
The 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre is one of those stories that punches every button that can be pushed in news coverage today, especially after months of news about the complex Black Li...
New podcast: New York Times still ignoring religion ghosts in 'demographic winter' trends
I could, without breaking a sweat, create a list of important religion-beat news stories that are, to some degree or another, connected to the sinking birth rates in the Unites States and around the w...
New Podcast: Yes, election of first trans/queer/gender fluid ELCA bishop was a big story
Imagine that you are a pastor or a layperson in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod or one of the other conservative Lutheran bodies in the United States. So y...
New podcast: Religious wars over vaccines? They're more complex than those headlines
Once again, it’s time for some time travel on the religion beat — as we ponder the current state of news coverage about the COVID-19 mask-and-vaccine wars. Think back to Easter a year ago. Church lead...
United Methodist pastor’s podcast ‘Cross Over Q’ challenges QAnon, comforts its victims
Vicar Derek Kubilus hoped the conspiracy theories would calm down after the 2020 election passed and an apocalyptic event known as “The Storm” didn’t happen. The post United Methodist pastor’s podcast...
New podcast: Should religious leaders and the cultural right applaud lousy Oscar ratings?
Pick a headline, just about any Oscar headline. The ratings for the 2021 Academy Awards were bad. How bad? Here’s the take from the world-weary folks at Entertainment Weekly: “Oscars hit another histo...
New podcast: German priests plan huge rite to bless gay unions? Time for time travel …
I don’t know about you, but this Crux headline sounds like a big story to me: “German Catholics plan huge blessing of gay unions on May 10.” I mean, think of the global ramifications of that kind of e...