By Harvey Winje
Are we too consumed by NEWS?
Publisher Peter W. Marty challenges himself and readers with this question when also quoting “Alain de Botton, a British-based philosopher and author of The News: A User”'s Manual, who believes that in contemporary culture news has largely replaced religion as ”˜our central source of guidance and our touchstone of authority.”' The news””not scripture, tradition, or inspired ritual””informs how we handle suffering and make moral choices. A desire to know what”'s going on all hours of the day and night actually makes us more shallow than we may want to admit.” [See, complete article by Peter Marty in Christian Century, November 23, 2016 and hopefully reprinted in the September Alley Newspaper]
