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The penalty for reading the news.
As it turns out:
1. The Archbishop of Canterbury didn’t actually call the nativity “a legend.”
2. The Pope didn’t actually call The Golden Compass “godless.”
3. Fred Thompson wasn’t actually endorsed by “an umbrella group for 40 million conservative Methodists across the U.S.”
4. Mitt Romney’s dad didn’t actually march with Martin Luther King Jr., and neither did he.
5. I didn’t actually find five stories in this vein. But here’s my favorite media criticism artifact of all time.
The Bulletin
Americans’ growing frustrations with Israel, Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for $250 million, and the popularity of John Mark Comer.
News
An interview with Sunday Bobai Agang about the lessons he learned from his abduction last month.
News
An NBA player’s fall resurrects an old anxiety: When does talking about faith become “detrimental conduct”?
News
Young people are using social media to spread the gospel and denounce the Communist regime.
Public Theology Project
The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins told me about problems that feel eerily similar to what I see in the church.
Wire Story
Women still dominate church pews, but studies find that devotion among Gen Z women has cooled to levels on par with Gen Z men.
The venerable theological tradition makes war slower, riskier, costlier, and less efficient—and that’s the point.