Today's Fresh Blogs...

• And don’t wear white after Labor Day

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Pop Culture, World Religions, First Person, Sex

  The intersection of religion and dress is most fascinating to me. I grew up with a mother who was far and away the most fashionable pastor’s wife I knew. And then I also had acquaintances and neighbors involved in the Christian modesty movement, which required women to wear large pieces of fabric that covered them extensively. As I prepare

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• The ‘usual’ death-penalty ghosts

  Published: July 24, 2007, 8:37 am

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Journalism, Catholicism

  Have you been following the case of convicted cop-killer Troy Davis on death row in Georgia? The Georgia clemency board recently granted him a stay of execution, so the story has moved off page one of the major newspapers and back into the inside pages for a while. Still it is worth following, for several reasons (including what is, for me, a

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• Hillary and her female issues

  Published: July 23, 2007, 11:36 am

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Evangelicals, Mainline

  to agree with her on the issues and see her as a strong leader and as a positive role model. . . . But the poll also held some warning signs for Mrs. Clinton, 59, the junior senator from New York. Forty percent of voters view her unfavorably, more than for any of the other major candidates for president (although they are not as well known).

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• Alcohol: Lower your grades and boost your income?

  Published: September 18, 2006, 7:35 pm

  Tags: Research, Social Issues

  According to The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 25% of college students report a drop in their grades and academic performance because of drinking. Yet, according to a new Libertarian-funded study conducted by the Journal of Labor Research,...

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• You're so money and this professional wingman service knows it

  Published: September 14, 2006, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Social Issues

  Have you ever watched a movie like Swingers, noticed how Vince Vaughn fast-talked all his friends into impossibly desirable social situations with women, and thought, Why can't I have a friend like that? Well, now, for a rate starting at...

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• Our Pearl Harbor

  Published: September 12, 2006, 5:54 pm

  Tags: Social Issues

  As the nation observed the fifth-year anniversary observance of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on Monday, much attention focused on that day being the formative event for Generation Next. In USA TODAY, reporter Sharon Jayson talked to two researchers who...

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• A privacy revolt

  Published: September 8, 2006, 9:03 am

  Tags: Social Issues

  There's a virtual revolution going on, and thousands of college students are taking action to make a change. This week, the gurus at the wildly popular Facebook social networking site (with about 9 million members) staged a major relaunch in...

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• Dream big, disappoint big

  Published: September 5, 2006, 6:19 pm

  Tags: On The Road, Research, Social Issues

  In the Health section of The Washington Post, Elizabeth Agnvall reports on the findings of a Florida State University study that says the dreams of today's young adults are becoming increasingly unachievable. According to the study, Generation Next is just...

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• Gen Nexters worldwide meet to repair U.S.-Muslim relations

  Published: August 31, 2006, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues

  Even though most Generation Nexters were teenagers when planes struck the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, 16- to 25-year-olds today are still a generation more likely to be associated with spring break and MySpace than with serious thought on serious...

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• Big Mother is watching you

  Published: August 31, 2006, 3:07 pm

  Tags: Social Issues, Technology

  I was livid for the first few months, said Jessica Pawlick, a Gen Nexter who discovered that her parents had been tracking her movements through a GPS device hidden in her car. On Tuesday's Morning Edition on NPR, Tovia...

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• Listless about Generation Next

  Published: August 29, 2006, 7:19 pm

  Tags: Education, Social Issues

  Every year for the past eight years, a professor and public affairs director at Beloit College in Wisconsin have prepared a Mindset List for the school's professors, clergy and other faculty so they might understand the world view of incoming...

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• A show that may not survive with Gen Nexters

  Published: August 29, 2006, 7:02 pm

  Tags: On The Road, Social Issues

  Just as we have been learning about all the intriguing ways that Generation Nexters have sought to put racial divides behind them, we learn about the handiwork of 46-year-old Mark Burnett and his team at CBS. They have decided to...

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• Here some stand

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:53 pm

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Godbeat, Anglicanism, Catholicism, Evangelicals, Judaism, Islam, Sex, Mainline

  “Stories like this annoy me,” a Lutheran pastor wrote when he notified us of the following Chicago Sun-Times piece. Written by veteran religion reporter Susan Hogan/Albach, it’s about how the Metropolitan Chicago bishop-elect of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America views his denomination’s celibacy requirement for gay

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• Who can argue with the gay bishop?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:56 pm

  Tags: Social Issues, Godbeat, Anglicanism, World, Sex

  One of the greatest challenges that journalists face, in my humble opinion, is knowing how to handle a strong, newsworthy statement of fact by a person of authority that simply cannot be verified as accurate. Don’t you hate that? It’s like in the movies when a person is forced to make a quick decision between right and wrong and then

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• Assume the official position

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Social Issues, Web Tech, Journalism, Academia, Religion, Creeping Fundamentalism, Anglicanism, World Religions, Catholicism, Evangelicals, Judaism, Islam, Sex, Mainline

  While visiting the blog of Episcopal priest Joseph Howard I came across a link to a new journalism and religion site. Funded by the Carnegie-Knight Initiative, the site has blogs, links to a Second Life community, and other features. Here’s how it’s described: Stories about religion are too often framed around conflict and controversy,

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