Frank Lockwood, religion reporter for The Arkansas Democrat-Herald scored a 20 minute interview with former US President Jimmy Carter. AP picked it up, and Drudge put in on his front page. Lockwood blogs at Bible Belt Blogger and he used questions from readers in the interview.
In following some of the comments and posts, I’m struck by [...]

 God, please - no more lessons
Barring a miracle, the Mission will close its doors on June 30. They will never reopen - the buildings and assests will be sold to eliminate our debt. Staff were given notice today.  Yes, God is in the miracle business. Please don’t go there in the comments - I haven’t [...]

Falwell’s strident defence of Christian conservative values had the most influence on Canadian evangelical groups such as Focus on the Family, Real Women and the Defend Marriage coalition, says Prof. Bruce Foster, a B.C.-trained political scientist now at Mount Royal College in Calgary.
But Foster said he believes Falwell’s undying determination to equate God with hyper [...]

Cory Doctrow has a few suggestions for anyone running a blog or a forum on what to do about trolls.
Each community has it’s own level of tolerance, when it is reached, what to do?
He makes the point that most geeks are of a take-no-prisoner variety, but that most people using the internet like community and [...]

The General welcomes a new guest poster tonight. I hope you will too.
Jerry Falwell saved me.
I didn’t know I needed saving at the time. I had a top-rated television series, money coming out the wazoo, and the ability to show sizzling-hot porn on a video monitor I had mounted in my stomach. You can’t imagine [...]

73 year old Jerry Falwell died this afternoon.
The Southern Baptist minister was found unconscious in his office today and was rushed to Lynchburg General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Ron Godwin, the executive vice president of Falwell’s Liberty University, said Falwell was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. Godwin said he was [...]

Bloggers that post about TV shows are finding themselves courted by TV networks.

Who says you can’t buy love? Trying to tap into the burgeoning power of blogs as promotional tools and fed up with the jaded attitudes of professional critics and TV feature writers, studios and networks are flooding bloggers with free stuff in hopes the [...]

Mike Rinder, a director at Church of Scientology International, said it was considering legal action and a formal complaint to the media regulator Ofcom.
The organisation posted more retaliatory footage on the web, with a 24-page magazine criticising the BBC in general and Panorama in particular, at a specially commissioned website. It also plans to distribute [...]