The Washington Post hired a blogger named Ben Domench recently to write a blog called Red America.
He was hired around March 20th. He resigned today because of plagiarism.
Resigned, effective immediately. 
This kind of thing ticks a lot of people off, and it should. There are hundreds of bloggers that would like to write for traditional media and get paid [...]

Jasim Mohammed Khalaf, a reporter-in-training for The Institute for War and Peace Reporting spent 12 days in US detention in Iraq. Here is his accounting.
Then we were separated. I was confined in a solitary cell no bigger than two-by-one metres. And so were the others.
My cell had a light bulb but no natural light. It [...]

via: Tom Paine  - Bill Moyers tribute to James Dunn at the Wake Forest Divinity School. I pulled out the lighter hearted paragraphs because the truths of history are heavy.
James Dunn and Bill Leonard are Baptists. What kind of Baptist matters. At last count there were more than two dozen varieties of Baptists in America. Bill [...]

I’ve been away, to be honest I’ve been so emotionally, mentally, physically and socially weary I have not wanted to function. So the last while I’ve had the opportunity to have a few road trips without having to pay for them. And I’ve taken them, knowing a change is as good as a rest.
And I’ve had [...]

Jenny Jackson has an excellent piece in the Ottawa Citizen this weekend about a seminar held in Ottawa by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy called Navigating the Faith/Politics Interface.
About 90 people attended. It is run by Preston Manning,  of the former Reform Party. The seminars are designed to help people of faith learn to listen, to [...]

I received a generous offer from R.G. Mitchell,  a Canadian distributor of religious books. You can get the details in this post and a list of the publishers. You’d be free to post as many reviews as you’d like by arrangement with the company.
What I’m looking for is a blogger that would be willing to write a [...]

I didn’t mean to laugh.  I really didn’t.
LaShawn Barber didn’t have time for her blog - she is busy trying to make a living as a writer. So, she came up with a blog ‘class project’ in classic new media style. She gave her readers the executive summary of The State of the News Media 2006, by The Project of Excellence in Journalism.
Excellent [...]

On his Daily Show one evening, Jon Stewart compared the importance of his home region in presidential elections with that of his guest, Newt Gingrich. “I’m from the Northeast,” he said. “We used to be important.”
Let me play Stewart to Christianity Today’s Gingrich: “I’m a mainline Protestant. We used to be important.” Though we Methodists [...]