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...Meanwhile, his colleagues at the Herald feared for DeFede's safety. The reporter who had called him at home with the news of the suicide immediately transferred DeFede to Herald publisher, Jesus Diaz Jr. ?I think there was some ridiculous speculation that he had come to the Herald to shoot me. The publisher wanted to reassure me that I was okay...
...respond as the keeper in the newsroom?? Fiedler asks. ?I ultimately agreed and Jesus agreed and Robert Beatty agreed. We talked to smart people in San Jose.? He adds that the decision to fire the columnist was made by Herald executives. ?Nobody in San Jose said you should do this,? he says. ?We were looking to see if there was precedent here...
...Testaments seem too remote to interest today's 13-year-olds, think again. Every schoolyard has a Goliath; every new friend is a potential Judas. In sermons pitched to middle schoolers, the analogies are pushed even further. Original sin, says Dietz, is like being born on the Titanic with Jesus as your only lifeboat. With adolescence comes new cognitive tools to explore those ancient ideas. "Along with the ability to understand abstract concepts, their sense of empathy is expanding," says Dr. Mary Lynn Dell, who is an adolescent psychiatrist at Emory University and an Episcopal priest. "In religious terms, this...
...middle school pastors--most of them volunteers in their 20s. "We know that 13-year-olds are going to move away from their parents," he says. "The question is, Where are they going to move to? In the youth pastors, they see people who drive jeeps and love Jesus...
Many evangelical churches see 13-year-old hearts and minds as the ultimate battlefield in the culture wars. If Jesus is competing with 50 Cent for the soul of today's youth, megachurches like Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, are making sure the Lord is not outgunned. Their junior high worship area features a million-dollar sound system and mammoth movie screens that play to an audience of as many as 1,000 teenagers on Sundays. Prestonwood's executive pastor, Mike Buster, makes no apologies for the slick production values. It takes a good show to expose kids...