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POPSR.I.P. Falwell: preliminary roundup of media coverage From various sources, here is a quick roundup of mainstream coverage of and blog responses to Falwell's death this week. I've barely begun to get through this list. Someone ought to start a wiki. Many of these links are from ReligionHeadlines.org and from other Religion Newswriters Assoc. pages. Some are from the GetReligion.org post on Falwell from this week. Others are from Beliefnet. Highly incomplete; I plan to update this. Feel free to leave additional links in the comments.
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POPSThe God That Never Failed (Book Review) Interesting review of Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction , David Kuo's wide-eyed, first-hand disillusionment with the Bush Administration's cynical exploitation of faith-based initiatives for political purposes.
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POPS"Have we done compassion or haven't we?" Bush's entire 2000 campaign was organized around the "compassionate conservative" theme. Yet midway through his first term, Bush had no idea whether he was living up to his label--and his aides wouldn't even tell him the truth was quite the opposite.