The Episcopal Church Losing It's Magazine? Newsweek to Be Sold

I have followed the decline of Newsweek with some interest. What was odd about the "new" vision of Newsweek was its aggeessive stance on theological issues. It all had a very Episcopal Church tone too which was odd since that is not is not a huge audience.

Get Religion has a good post on this atWWJD: A prayer for those at sea.

Here is a part:

The elephant in the living room, in all of these stories, is whether Meacham was wise when he made the decision to cast off roughly half of Newsweek’s remaining readers and focus on publishing a niche magazine sure to please a narrow, elite audience of cultural, political and religious progressives who share his vision of a broadly spiritual America based on, well, his own approach to history, theology and political thought.

Meacham announced that strategy shift with a bang, hooked to Lisa Miller’s famous and/or infamous cover story under the headline, “The Religious Case for Gay Marriage.” In effect, the Newsweek editor announced that he was creating a World Magazine for the Episcopal establishment and those who worship, or used to worship, in similar pews. That’s the new publication that I have taken to calling nonNewsweek.