10.28.2009 4:16 pm
Special to the Post-Dispatch
Ziztur is a blog by a couple St. Louis twenty-somethings that covers atheism, science, religion, and art. Most interestingly, the bloggers visit a different religious service every week (more or less) and write about their experiences. Recently they’ve also been blogging about their visit to the Creation Museum. The intention of the “faith infiltration” visits is simply to describe what happens in various services–what the space is like, how they were greeted, usually they paraphrase the sermon, provide quotes, and even give the lyrics to the music when they can find it. Fascinating reading for anyone interested in religions.
07.10.2008 10:15 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Killing the Buddha, a great web magazine that was dormant for awhile, is back.
The magazine, which was founded by two talented religion reporters, Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau, has been resurrected, and is already offering some thought-provoking essays about belief.
Jeff is a friend, and the author of the recently published “The Family.” He also runs a great religion blog based at NYU called The Revealer.
KTB was notable in its heyday for being a place where writers could question belief - theirs and others’. Wrestling with one’s faith is a time-honored tradition and KTB is, as it says on its newly revamped site, “a place for brazen stories of belief — lost and found and lost again.”
Check it out. And make sure to check out the mag’s archives section.