Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of Faith, media and culture. In this space yesterday, Reverend Peter Panagore talked about a 1980 ice-climbing snafu that resulted an apparent near-death experience that forever altered his outlook on life.  Here, he talks about the years that followed, including his current tenure as pastor of the First Radio…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Rabbi David Wolpe takes on Mel Gibson’s Maccabbee movie.  Writing in The Hollywood Reporter, The respected Jewish scholar of Sinai Temple in West Los Angeles says: Apparently it is not enough for Gibson to dislike Jews. He must also expropriate their heroes.…

Here ‘a today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1.Beliefnet tackles Israeli – Palestinian conflict. Beliefnet is hosting a special online event tomorrow night (Wednesday, 9/21) @ 7 PM ET focusing on efforts to pursue violent answers to the intractable tensions that between Israelis and Palestinians. The event will begin with  the…

Here’s today’s Faith, Media & Culture Hot List. And, I must say, it is a bit disturbing how many items involve organs, and not the musical kind. 1. A-Twitter over Weiner. From The Wrap: An errant Twit-pic of his bulging underwear landed Rep. Anthony Weiner in a doozy of a political scandal. Thus when the…

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