The Dallas Morning News Religion Blog posts a fascinating Reuters story on religion reporters losing their faith. The Reuters piece concludes with a question for readers: “Do you think a journalist has to be a believer to be a good religion reporter?” The piece seems to identify uncovered religious scandals as the culprit, so religious art reporters should be safe for the most part.
The Catholic Church in India is protesting Shekhar Kapur’s “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” on the grounds that it “portrays the Catholic Church in a negative light and sharpens the denominational divide.” The director insists it is “anti [all] extreme forms of religion.” [Christian Post]
Shalom Auslander “has done his best to rid himself of what he sees as a crippling legacy” (that is his Jewish legacy), but “God haunts him like an incubus.” He writes, “The teachers from my youth are gone, the parents old and mostly estranged … The Man they told me about - he’s still around. I can’t shake him. I read Spinoza. I read Nietzsche. I read National Lampoon. Nothing helps. I live with Him every day, and behold, he is still angry, still vengeful still - eternally - pissed off.” [The Globe and Mail]
Journal of the American Academy of Religion reviews Blasphemy: Art that Offends by S. Brent Plate.
A great item from NPR: “The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, which houses exhibits about the Holocaust, racism and human rights, would like to add space it could rent for weddings and bar mitzvahs. But neighbors have signed a petition asking the city to reject the museum’s plans, citing worries about noise.”
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