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It's ironic that Christians in the media feel muzzled (or muzzle themselves): such treatment hardly lives up to the ubiquitous ritual celebration of "diversity" in the newsroom. And it's unfortunate that Christians are pressured to avoid "theology or dogma" and accept popular culture's amorphous interest in "spirituality [rather] than religion," as Rhodes says he prefers. Still, we can only hope that the work of people such as Falsani—and the notice of media critics such as Rhodes—will be what defines a Christian presence in the mass media.
Related:
-Rhodes' interview with Falsani
-Falsani Sun-Times columns on Bono's visit and God and the Cubs
-Falsani's cover story on Bono for Christianity Today
-Falsani's husband wins award for investigating death penalty
-My vision statement for journalism as a vocation
-"God in the Newsroom" from the National Review
-David Aikman: Why God loves the media
-Gegrapha: Organization of Christian journalists in the non-religious press
-Response to Kristof's NYT column: 'Christian belief is varied and diverse'
PLACES & CULTUREFrom the Washington Post:
TUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories—Gordon Anaviak lives in a house by the deep, black, cold Beaufort Sea, a sea that is eating away at the shoreline and causing the ground to melt. Anaviak, 72, a fisherman, looks out his window at the waves and is worried. With each wave, he knows the sea is taking away a little more of Tuktoyaktuk, until one day this hamlet may dissolve like salt in water. Nobody knows for certain why the sea is eroding this spit of land, exposing the permafrost upon which Tuktoyaktuk, a town of just less than 1,000 people, is built. But Anaviak, an elder of the Inuvialuit community, was born on the land and has his own theory. It boils down to global warming. Even as he apologizes for his lack of formal education, he rises from his sofa and pulls a book off of a shelf. He flips the pages until he comes to a paragraph that explains how explorers here in 1911 recorded temperatures of 60 degrees below zero and a wind chill of minus 110. "The cause of the permafrost melting," Anaviak said, "is because we don't get that cold anymore." Full story
HONOLULU—A river of crimson T-shirts stretched more than a mile down Waikiki's main thoroughfare. With Hawaiian chants and the blowing of conch shells, the throng of demonstrators moved slowly past befuddled tourists along the oceanfront. "Ku i ka pono. Ku 'e i ka hewa!" they chanted, in a display of solidarity that included the governor and lieutenant governor, education officials, students, families and elders. Their chant translated: "Stand up for justice. Resist injustice!" The sight of several thousand marchers drew attention … in the tourist mecca of Waikiki. [At] a federal courthouse three miles away … three anti-discrimination lawsuits may undo a catalogue of services available only to those of aboriginal Hawaiian ancestry—health care, housing and even a prestigious private school. … The three lawsuits reject long-held notions that Hawaiians deserve special treatment in the islands their ancestors ruled as a kingdom, in large part because they suffered after the monarchy was overthrown in an 1893 conspiracy aided by representatives of the U.S. government. Full story
CITY SCENE: BOSTONThis week, my friend and fellow Michigan émigréSara VanderHaagen checks in from her new home in Boston:
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