Chris Herlinger
Chris Herlinger is an author at Religion News Service.
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Of headlines and assistant principals
By Chris Herlinger — April 19, 2008
New York City’s tabloid media, which always love a mega-event, are already enjoying Benedict’s visit; today’s New York Post features a story about a taxi cab with a faulty transmission that caused it to go up in flames Thursday in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, giving “cops a big-time security scare” and a Post caption […]
Oh, those were the days…
By Chris Herlinger — April 19, 2008
Flipping through the memoirs of the late foreign correspondent Edward Behr reveals the media crush with popes was once a little more intimate. Behr describes a memorable moment when a photographer colleague, George Menager, covered Pope Paul VI’s 1969 visit to the Holy Land. Because of the complexities of crowd control, the pope and Menager, […]
Getting Wright Right
By Chris Herlinger — April 9, 2008
For those of us who came of age when liberation theology was in the air-in my case, during reporting trips to Latin America, Asia and Africa in the 1980s, followed by time at Union Theological Seminary in the early 1990s-it’s been startling to see all of the coverage of a theological trend that was supposed […]
A governor’s downfall
By Chris Herlinger — March 15, 2008
New Yorkers were shell-shocked this week about the sudden political downfall (and planned resignation) of our governor, Eliot Spitzer, from his involvement in a prostitution ring scandal. There’s probably not much to add to a story about a public figure whose fall from power was so startling because it was so sudden and so unexpected. […]
Templeton winner laments ‘theological error’
By Chris Herlinger — March 14, 2008
Interviewing the annual winner of the Templeton Prize-the prize for advances in science and religion awarded annually by the John Templeton Foundation-is always something of a yearly assignment highlight for an RNS reporter: the prize winners are invariably interesting and stimulating interview subjects. They’re also often a little shell-shocked at winning what is touted as […]
Forbes Leaves Riverside Pulpit Pulling No Punches
By Chris Herlinger — April 26, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Make no mistake: Take the Rev. James A. Forbes Jr. away from a pulpit and he is not himself. Forbes’s old friend, the late, eminent African-American church historian James Melvin Washington, used to kid the senior minister of Manhattan’s Riverside Church by saying Forbes “would preach to […]
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