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• Seeing beyond Tammy Faye’s mascara

  Published: July 25, 2007, 8:22 pm

  Tags: People, Radio Tv, Evangelicals

  and her brethren in the TV evangelism fold who coveted PTL’s satellite channel. But in the 20 years since then, largely thanks to Tammy Faye’s developing a following among gays and lesbians, another character emerged. This character wore the same makeup, cried just as readily as ever and still mourned the loss of PTL. She also

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• Poor coverage of shoddy religion coverage

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: Web Tech, Journalism, Religion, People, Radio Tv

  The ABC News news magazine show 20/20 messed up big time. In a March episode the show showed a video clip of the Los Angeles-based Crenshaw Christian Center founder The Rev. Frederick K.C. Price stating that he lives in a 25-room mansion, owns a $6 million yacht, a private jet, a helicopter and seven luxury cars. The problem for ABC News is that

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• Underground Artist submit to DaddyMac Radio/Tv!!!!!

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:13 pm

  Tags: Daddymac Radio Tv

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• Wrestling with lies and demons

  Published: August 18, 2007, 12:07 pm

  Tags: Godbeat, Pop Culture, Sports, Radio Tv, Evangelicals

  As I rode home on the MARC train the other night, I saw several people reading the sprawling Washington Post features section piece on the sad lives and early deaths of professional wrestlers Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit. This led into a series of hard-to-answer questions about why so many wrestlers die young, other than the assumed impact of

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• God’s Warriors: blatant moral equivalency

  Published: August 20, 2007, 8:27 pm

  Tags: Journalism, Religion, Radio Tv, World, Evangelicals, Judaism, Islam

  Christiane Amanpour’s heavily promoted CNN series, God’s Warriors, seems to be a well-intended effort at explaining in-depth religious issues prominent in today’s world. Amanpour deserves credit for raising the visibility of international issues. That she has a total of six hours of prime-time television over the course of three

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• Michael Vick, sinner

  Published: August 21, 2007, 3:10 pm

  Tags: Social Issues, People, Radio Tv

  What a country. What a culture. It should be clear to just about anyone who reads major newspapers that we live in an age in which it is is safer to use religious language when describing secular sins than when describing what used to be called religious sins. It’s safer to talk about the sin of burning too much gasoline than the sin of

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• Michael Vick, sinner (to be continued)

  Published: August 29, 2007, 11:42 am

  Tags: People, Sports, Radio Tv, Evangelicals

  You knew it was coming, didn’t you? You knew that the religion ghost in the Michael Vick story would wake up. I mean, last week I put it this way in a post responding to a Michael Wilbon column in The Washington Post that veered into faith language: This is coming real, real close to stating the obvious. . . . What is the secular version

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• CT asks readers about Vick’s “God card”

  Published: August 29, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Web Tech, Sports, Radio Tv, Evangelicals

  Here is your opportunity to cast your vote on the state of Michael Vick’s soul or, at the very least, the quality of his press-conference performance the other day. Christianity Today is asking its online readers: What’s your response to Michael Vick saying he “found Jesus?” __ Great! I’m so happy he’s become

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• The NFL gets religion (maybe not)

  Published: September 1, 2007, 11:12 am

  Tags: Social Issues, Journalism, Pop Culture, Sports, Radio Tv, Evangelicals, Sex

  About the time that I was finishing up my studies at Baylor University, a remarkable young football player arrived on the campus named Mike Singletary. I met him a couple of times through a common friend and, of course, he went on to become one of the greatest college linebackers of all time and then his all-everything career (check this out

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• Stories inside that L.A. tent revival

  Published: September 3, 2007, 10:05 am

  Tags: Politics, Godbeat, People, Radio Tv, Evangelicals

  The day is coming, sooner rather than later. How would you like to try to write a standard, newspaper-length obituary for the Rev. Billy Graham? How would you like to cover his entire life in somewhere between 600 and 2,000 words? For some of us who work the religion beat, the recent death of Ruth Bell Graham forced us to open up the files that

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• Are the Bynum/Weeks wars really that ironic?

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:13 pm

  Tags: Politics, Journalism, Religion, People, Radio Tv, Evangelicals, First Person

  The marital troubles between the superstar couple Juanita Bynum and Bishop Thomas Weeks III has received a little coverage beyond the “straight news” stories one would expect of individuals at this level of fame. There have been no New York Times think pieces or Newsweek-style thoughtful analyses. A reason for that is that this is not

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• Miami Herald vs. Kennedy, again

  Published: September 6, 2007, 9:02 am

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Creeping Fundamentalism, People, Radio Tv, Evangelicals

  scholarly terms, spoke on TV and testified in Congress for his vision of an ideal America. And the thousands of others he trained assured that the causes — and opposition — would outlive him. There you go. Davis lets both sides speak freely, but does not veer into editorializing. One must assume that Kennedy also had, along the

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• LAT on middle America talk radio

  Published: September 9, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Politics, Journalism, Religion, Radio Tv, Evangelicals

  News pieces on talk radio hosts are always interesting to read since there is usually an abundance of material with which to work. These people talk for a living, usually three or four hours a day and thousands of people listen to them. Mark Barabak of The Los Angeles Times had an interesting and potentially compelling piece on

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• Religious “items” in a locker

  Published: September 29, 2007, 11:18 pm

  Tags: Godbeat, People, Sports, Radio Tv

  Another football weekend, yet another chance to venture into the arena of faith and sports. For starters, the Washington Post had an interesting story about former Philadelphia Eagle running back Herb Lusk, who is better known for what happened after one of his touchdown runs than for the actual events of his short, but sweet, National Football

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• Ghost in the reality TV universe

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:08 pm

  Tags: Social Issues, Journalism, Pop Culture, Radio Tv

  story, “When Reality TV Gets Too Real,” by reporter Jeremy W. Peters: On a recent episode of “Intervention,” A&E’s documentary series about addiction, no one was stopping Pam, an alcoholic, from driving. As she made her way to the front door — stopping first at the refrigerator to take a swig of vodka

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