What struck me reading Newsweek’s unusual cover story — “the Religious Case for Gay Marriage” — is not what it says about gay rights but what it says about the economics of newsmagazines. I worked at Newsweek as National Correspondent in the 1980s and 1990s, and even back then, the newsmags were in an identity…

Humbug. I got only eight out of 14 right on Beliefnet’s holiday movie quiz. When the author’s supplemented the old movies with some modern “classics” like National Lampoon’s Christmas special, well, the level of difficulty went up. Three I got wrong: Q5. What does Clark Griswold get instead of a year-end end bonus in “National…

Last month Beliefnet began posted the nominees for the Most Inspiring Person of the Year. Beliefnet’s readers then voted, winnowing the field down to three finalists: The Boy Scouts of Blencoe, Iowa, who persevered through a deadly tornado; Stephen Curtis Chapman, the musician who suffered unspeakable tragedy when his teen son ran over his baby…

Cynthia McFadden of ABC’s Nightline landed the first “exit interview” with President Bush about his faith. Those evangelicals still enamored of him or liberals convinced Bush is a fundamentalist, will be disappointed to hear he departed from orthodox Christian theology repeatedly. –“I’m not a literalist” about the Bible, he said. –He believes faith in God…

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