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Media Circus
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

I've been traveling lately, and in various hotels and friend's guest rooms, have seen more TV than usual. I've been traveling lately, and in various hotels and friend� ...

Interview with Bob Abernethy
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><P>Following is an excerpt from an interview with Bob Abernethy that will appear in a forthcoming issue of <A href="http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/">The Wittenburg Door</A>. ...

God Bless C-SPAN
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ed Spivey Jr. The voice of the people. Even the crazy ones. (Columns, Humor, Jubilee 2000, Media, H'ru ...

Blocking the Big Mouths
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum The media reform movement comes of age. One day when my oldest son was about 12 years old, ...

Shattered Truths
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Lynn Schwebach The transition of today’s churches from modernism to postmodernism dominates many discussions in Christian and secular medi ...

Aiming at Headlines
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Elizabeth Palmberg Bush administration amnesia spells disaster for Darfur. Three years ago, the United States ...

Spirituality and the Media Arts
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Darren Hughes Even at a length of just under 100 pages, Ron Austin’s In a New Light: Spirituality and the Media Arts is four or five books ...

What Would Dilbert Do?
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum White-collar life in the information age. One day when my oldest son was about 12 years ol ...

Rolling Stone Responds to My Challenge
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:28pm | Type: Blog

<P>It's not often that something I write attracts an immediate response from one of the most famous media entities in the world, but surprisingly enough, just after <a href="http://blog.belief ...

News in the Corporate Age
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:36pm | Type: Magazine Article

Bart Preecs In the discussions of Shortly after we inaugurate the next president, the 75-year history of over- ...

Reversing the Reagan Revolution
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum It's time to bring fairness back to the nation's airwaves. For the past 20 years ...

Televised Torture
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Eileen Norringtion I read with interest Jesse Holcomb's commentary "Tortured Logic" (June 2007) on the television series 24 ...

Jim Wallis: Sam Brownback Says 'The Poor Will Save Our Souls'
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p>Sen. Sam Brownback and I don't see eye-to-eye on every issue or policy, but he's been a faithful ally in our efforts to forge a grand alliance of conservatives and liberals to fight poverty ...

Jim Wallis: Sam Brownback Says 'The Poor Will Save Our Souls'
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p>Sen. Sam Brownback and I don't see eye-to-eye on every issue or policy, but he's been a faithful ally in our efforts to forge a grand alliance of conservatives and liberals to fight poverty ...

'We Are the World'
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Now playing near you: A global monoculture. Thirty years ago, the British punk-rock band T ...

One Side to Every Story
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 9:34am | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum The mainstream media's blind spot on "free trade." On the morning of Jan. 8 ...

Bob Francis: Can You Help Me Find the Free and Independent Press?
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html"></a>Bill Moyers Journal aired a great program Wednesday night called "<a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/j ...

Video: Iran Delegation on PBS's NOW
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/312/video.html"></a>The <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/blogs/godspolitics/2007/02/jeff-carr-welcome-to-iran.html">delegat ...

Video: Iran Delegation on PBS's NOW
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/312/video.html"></a>The <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/blogs/godspolitics/2007/02/jeff-carr-welcome-to-iran.html">delegat ...

Jeff Carr: Talking About Iran with Hannity and Colmes
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 3:08pm | Type: Blog

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG2XbQ0TP6c">Watch it:</a></p> Watch it: Was Jeff Carr taken by the Was Jeff Car ...

He's Back!
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ed Spivey Jr. Which sounds better, President Newt or President Mitt? In the past year, while you were avoiding ...

New and Noteworthy
Originally Posted: 03/16/2011 - 11:04am | Type: Magazine Article

The Editors More Peas, Please More Peas, Please Simply in Season Children's Cookbook , by Mark B ...

True Believers
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Dan Nejfelt Historical reflections on war often lead to the conclusion that the past is prologue, that the same ones are fought again and ...

News Bites
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez Legal Aid. Dionisio Díaz García, a Christian labor la ...

New and Noteworthy
Originally Posted: 03/16/2011 - 11:05am | Type: Magazine Article

The Editors Spiritual Witnesses Women Saints: 365 Daily Readings, by Madonna Sophia Compton, with Maria Compton Hernandez and Patricia Cam ...

Happy Holidays!
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum The war on the war on Christmas As this column is written, the seasonal aisle at Kmart has ...

News Bites
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez -Holy Water. -Holy Water. ...

Losing the News
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum As newspapers die a slow death, can cable, radio, and the Web really provide serious, independent news? ...

Public Radio's New Jeans
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum The 'Triple-A' music format comes with a nice fit, but only for a few. All radio ...

On-Screen Blind Spots
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Donovan Jacobs Hollywood shows little respect for working-class and poor people. In less than five years—the t ...

Agents of Power
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Can democracy survive without an adversarial press? Agents of Power ...

In Iraq, the Truth is Out There
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Throughout the first year of the Iraq war, Throughout the first year of the Iraq war, the Bush administration managed to keep a pret ...

Faux News
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Ryan Beiler Laughter may be the best medicine for bad news. Liberals and conservatives agree- ...

Indecent Exposure
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum The 'adult' standards of cable have seeped into the groundwater of broadcast television. ...

News Values
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh What will it take for us to trust the press? The series of journalistic screw-ups at The New Y ...

Opposition Radio
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Ted Parks The alternative voice of Pacifica's KPFK. Clear Channel, Viacom, AOL Time Warner, Disney—the ...

Who Occupies the Occupied Territories?
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler The Glasgow University Media Group decided to resear ...

The God Beat
Originally Posted: 08/05/2011 - 1:12pm | Type: Magazine Article

John Dart In newsrooms around the country, religion is no longer a dead-end assignment—but the media still have a long way to go before t ...

Filling the 'Religion Gap'
Originally Posted: 08/05/2011 - 1:13pm | Type: Magazine Article

Bob Abernethy People of faith who complain about the religion gap in commercial television news coverage often try to explain it by charg ...

The Spotlight Will Find You
Originally Posted: 08/05/2011 - 1:13pm | Type: Magazine Article

Lynn Neary Much of what is best about religion does not need journalism to thrive. Much of what is best about ...

To Quicken, Arouse, and Inspire
Originally Posted: 08/05/2011 - 1:13pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin E. Marty Not wanting to lose all credibility as a populist, I want to risk my credentials by criticizing for once not "the me ...

Truth Held Hostage
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Barbara Reynolds For much of the 30 years that I have been in some of America's top newsrooms, religion was treated like those klutzy ...

Passion and Controversy
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Peggy Wehmeyer I understand why people of faith often have an ax to grind with the media. I wouldn't say to them, "Come on, we h ...

Which Religions to Cover?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Adelle M. Banks I've been a religion reporter for more than a decade, and I still find that many misunderstand my title—journalists i ...

In a Godly Way
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Dale Hanson Bourke Several years ago I wrote a column on faith and families to be distributed to secular newspapers. ...

Wanted: Insiders
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Cal Thomas A Washington Post ombudsman once tried to explain the stereotyping of evangelicals by a Post reporter who described them as &qu ...

Jamming the Giants
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ryan Beiler For around $2,500 you too can be a DJ in the micro-radio revolution. For around $2,500 you too can ...

Raised by TV
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum By now the Littleton, Colorado high school massacre has become the cultural Rorschach test for the new millennium. ...

Tears of Sorrow and Joy
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Just over 18 months ago, my mother was dancing at my wedding. Only a month later, my mom discovered that she had cancer of the ...

Beyond Clan Politics
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ron Dart A consistent stand against persecution. The shocking, untold story of our time is that more Christian ...