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Newsweek picks up on CT & Leadership's pastors & porn reporting
Newsweek, meanwhile, keyed down its religion reporting this week, with a 572-word article without a whit of historical theology. Still, it should get quite a few readers: the subject is pastors and pornography.

The article for the most part seems to be a belated follow-up on a 2001 study from Christianity Today sister publication Leadership Journal that found 40 percent of ministers saying they had visited pornographic web sites. Sadly, Newsweek plays down the destructiveness of pornography, saying it's "a far cry from the scandals of the Roman Catholic Church, the hundreds of documented cases of priests preying on minors. These clergymen tend to be looking for escapist sexual thrills in an anonymous cyberworld. They are, after all, no less human than their followers in the pews." The only problem, Newsweek says, is that they're putting their jobs in jeopardy. But pornography is far more insidious and progressively destructive than this article would have you believe. A pastor reading this article may find comfort, feeling that his viewing of pornography is no big deal. That's a tragedy.

The New Yorker examines James and Madeline
Another weekly magazine with a heaping dose of religion this week is The New Yorker, which has articles both on the James ossuary and on fantasy writer Madeline L'Engle. Sadly, neither is available online right now, so Weblog doesn't know what's inside.

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