Here is a piece I did for the Dallas Morning News when the news came out the other day, that the torture of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib included forcing them to blaspheme Islam. I was emailing with a friend, an editor at DMN, about it and said that it reminded me of the Communists forcing Christi
This review is currently up on Beliefnet. I liked the opening few sentences, but the editor removed them, beginning the piece with "For some people..."
That's an example of a typical decision facing and editor: is the little lead-in what they call "dithering," and apt to lose impatient reade
