The Arrow's Path

            "* Are biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus accurate? Did this happen? "* Is salvation found through Jesus, alone? Was Jesus being literal when he said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me." "* Is sex outside of marriage a sin?"         -Original source article can be found here .  Yesterday, I began the first in a short series on reporter Terry Mattingly's "tMatt Trio" of questions that he often used when reporting on religious stories when he was trying to uncover and accurately report on denominational conflict or general religion stories involving Christian bodies. You can read my first reflection here .   Looking today at his second question is also an interesting interrogative: Is salvation through Jesus, alone? In most talks I have heard of him discussing this, he simply leaves it at that. The second part of the question tha...

A few years ago, the religion columnist and reporter Terry Mattingly shared three questions that he has used over the years to help him get the scoop on and then report on any Christian tradition or denomination in a fair and objective way. When I first heard him talking about these questions, which he jokingly always refers to as the "tMatt trio" or "tMatt 3", I thought that surely that was too simplistic. I have found, however, over the years of watching the American press lose the ability to even attempt any semblance of objective reporting particularly on religious issues, the more I have come to understand the sheer brilliant simplicity of these questions to ask to help you get your mind around what is going on in other denominations or Christian ecclesial bodies. To quote Terry Mattingly directly, the questions are (source link below):   "* Are biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus accurate? Did this happen? "* Is salvation found through Je...