Category Archives: The Scoop

by J. Terry Todd Google Trends confirms it: Web surfers want to know about Judgment Day. On Thursday night, May 19th, as Tech News Daily reports, four of the top ten searches were apocalypse-related.  The #1 search on Google was … Continue reading →

by Becky Garrison The past week was a kaleidoscope of LGBT-related stories. How did they look through then lens of mainstream news media? After Sojourners, a leading Christian social-justice magazine, decided not to run an ad welcoming the LGBT community, … Continue reading →

by Dalia Hashad Over the past few days, thousands of people in the Middle East and around the globe participated in coordinated protests commemorating the 1948 expulsion from Palestine of approximately 700,000 Palestinians who were subsequently barred, by the new … Continue reading →

by Salman Hameed One of the motivations behind the efforts to popularize science is the idea that we live in a democracy, and a scientifically informed citizenry is necessary (or is at least strongly preferred) for living in the modern … Continue reading →

by Maura Jane Farrelly The New York Times had an interesting piece this week that reminded me of one of the principle difficulties faced by reporters who cover religion in the United States: The fact that there is no definitive … Continue reading →

by John Adams In one fell swoop, President Obama trumped the borderline tabloid-ish coverage of the royal wedding, silenced the blather of the birthers, interrupted the boardroom of the “Celebrity Apprentice” and sent people dancing in the streets. As partiers … Continue reading →

by Dalia Hashad “Osama bin Laden's death brings celebration, unity,” Politico announced. To wit, Rush Limbaugh thanked God for President Obama. Cheering crowds from Washington, D.C. to Dearborn waved American flags and screamed, “USA! USA! USA!” But something is amiss. … Continue reading →

by J. Terry Todd It's the triumph of the mediated “Old World” spectacle this week, with London's royal wedding and the May Day beatification of Pope John Paul II in Rome. Of course, the event in Rome is much more … Continue reading →

David Eagleman, a neuroscientist recently profiled in The New Yorker, sounds like the smartest person I will never meet. Truly, just trying to keep up with what Eagleman is currently working on sequentially taxed, depressed and delighted me. Don't expect … Continue reading →

by Richard Flory Shocking! According to the New York Times, there are gay and lesbian students at evangelical colleges, and they actually want to be recognized by their schools for the people they are, not as some sort of sexual … Continue reading →