Thanks to our American friends, 'Faith' (as in Evangelical Christianity) is hitting the news media and being badly reported. Again. Trump is all our fault, you see.
Many
journalists, social commentators and other cultural pundits spend a great deal
of their time trying to produce instant pen-pictures of global shifts in
opinion and events. You might even be one of them. It’s hard, really. Sometimes, Life is just
one damned thing after another, the Editor wants it yesterday, so where do you
start? In puzzlement, usually. The irritating tendency of world religions to
not fade away (as predicted very frequently through the 20th century)
has led many to wonder not only ‘What is going on?’ but also ‘How can I write
this piece about religion when actually I know nothing about the subject since not going to Sunday School all those years ago?’ No
journalist likes to feel awkward or uninformed.
