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September 2004

September 01, 2004

Cheeseburgers in Jerusalem

It was the night before Melanie Preston's immigration flight to Israel and the 28-year-old daughter...

August 2004

August 25, 2004

Whither the Catholic Catholic voters?

Former Boston mayor Raymond Flynn doesn't see a lot of Republicans at the 9 o'clock...

August 18, 2004

Beyond the Baptist boycott

It was a cheesy ad slogan sure to raise eyebrows during the summer battle for...

August 11, 2004

Tools of the virtual church, Part II

Tony Campolo had a specific flock in mind as he prepared his first sermon for...

August 04, 2004

Churches of virtual believers, Part I

No Tony Campolo sermon would be complete without his pulpit-shaking gestures of inspiration and exasperation,...

July 2004

July 28, 2004

Gallup, statistics and discipleship

George Gallup Jr. has been studying the numbers for a half century and nobody knows...

July 21, 2004

Beyond XXXChurch.com

PHOENIX -- Anyone with the nerve to create XXXChurch.com is going to get attention, especially...

July 14, 2004

‘Ghosts’ on the God beat

Day after day, millions of Americans who frequent pews see ghosts when they pick up...

July 07, 2004

Good news for Orthodox in Turkey?

ISTANBUL -- There are two front gates into the walled compound that protects the home...

June 2004

June 30, 2004

Tmatt away, in Turkey and Greece

This was the very rare week -- third time in 17 years -- when I...

June 23, 2004

SBC hits a wall on the right

The resolution never hit the floor of the 2004 Southern Baptist Convention for debate.An effort...

June 16, 2004

‘Progressives’ in the pews

When the Rev. Robert Maddox went to work as Jimmy Carter's White House faith liaison,...

June 09, 2004

Reagan: Messiah? Antichrist? Normal mainliner?

As a Baptist preacher's kid who grew up in Texas in the 1970s, I had...

June 02, 2004

Hitting a nerve: News, religion, class

When it comes to media-bias surveys, God is almost as big a story these days...

May 2004

May 26, 2004

Hollywood after the Passion, Pt. II

The Rev. Mac Brunson recently took his kids out and, while the movie was forgettable,...

May 19, 2004

Movies after the Passion, Part I

When it comes to judging Hollywood, critics in pulpits and pews have been chanting the...

May 12, 2004

United Methodists do the math

From coast to coast, United Methodists are doing the math.America's third-largest flock just survived another...

May 05, 2004

Stalking the anti-fundamentalist voter

Any Top 10 list of slogans for abortion-rights signs would include "Curb your dogma" and...

April 2004

April 28, 2004

Watching the religious left pray

Anyone watching the annual March for Life will see all kinds of people saying all...

April 21, 2004

Life in the Methodist Minefield

The Rev. Julian Rush watched the headlines as 13 United Methodist pastors in the Pacific...

April 14, 2004

Year 16 — Passionate voices on God beat

The Harvard Divinity School didn't hide its feelings about "The Passion of the Christ."Mel Gibson's...

April 07, 2004

All those Left Behind Catholics

Catholic writer Carl Olson was struggling as he led his audience through the maze of...

March 2004

March 31, 2004

Passover questions for 2004

The lobby contains what security experts call a "mantrap."Guards monitor these bomb-proof doors, along with...

March 24, 2004

Facing a low-carb Lent

Depending on who is counting, somewhere between 5 million and 50 million Americans are on...

March 17, 2004

Baylor, same-sex marriage and ink

Every decade or so Baylor University endures another media storm about Southern Baptists, sex and...

March 10, 2004

Saving the Baylor brand name

WACO, Texas -- Looking out his window, athletic director Ian McCaw has been watching workers...

March 03, 2004

The Passion according to Judas

It's hard to watch Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" without concluding that the...

February 2004

February 25, 2004

Conservative thumbs down for ‘Passion’

Classics scholar John Granger will not be joining the throngs of other Christian conservatives as...

February 18, 2004

The Mystery Worshippers are out there

It is a sight that British vicars fear more than an empty collection plate.The business...

February 11, 2004

The Passion and the Talmud

The ancient rabbinic text is clear about the punishment for those who twisted sacred law...