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	<title>GetReligion</title>
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	<description>"The press . . . just doesn't get religion." -- William Schneider</description>
	<dc:date>2008-08-20T03:57:16Z</dc:date>
	
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		<title>Sermon after the soundbites</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3828</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3828#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-20T01:11:09Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Creeping Fundamentalism</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[In news lingo, there is this thing called a &#8220;follow&#8221; story and it is something that modern, shrinking, distressed newsrooms rarely have the time or resources to do.
Here&#8217;s the basic idea: So you have this gigantic news event that attracts waves of coverage. It&#8217;s all over the wires, on A1 in the newspapers, gets live coverage on the cable networks and the big event gets mentioned for more than 60 seconds on the major newscasts.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>LA Times disses religious liberty (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3827</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3827#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-19T18:40:58Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stricherz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Catholicism</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[You may have read read that the California State Supreme Court ruled that religious doctors cannot refuse to inseminate lesbian women artificially on religious grounds. The decision came down yesterday and has generated quite a bit of buzz.
I wrote about the consideration of the case two months ago.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Warren takes job of getting religion</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3821</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3821#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-19T13:00:12Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>dpulliam</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Godbeat</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Radio &#038; TV</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3821</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Between the lines of the coverage of Rick Warren&#8217;s forum with the two major presidential candidates was a rather significant development: A pastor, not a member of the media, was asking the questions and controlling the agenda of the first major presidential contest in 2008.
Plenty has been said in the media about Warren and how he arrived at this rather significant moment in his life. What hasn&#8217;t been said as much is that the church in a sense replaced the media Saturday night.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Obama, Andrew, Ross and &#8220;ensoulment&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3826</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3826#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-19T02:43:08Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Catholicism</category>
	<category>Announcements</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[


Since I am out here on the road, at times far from wireless and my usual news-media fixes, I am still playing catch-up on the actual results of the Saddleback forum (transcripts here and here) the other night.
We are all in the post-media-event commentary stage now and, you regular readers know, GetReligion tries to stay away from editorials and commentary pieces as much as possible. However, Rod &#8220;friend of this blog&#8221; Dreher is onto something with his post about an exchange between Andrew Sullivan and his Atlantic Monthly colleague Ross Douthat about Sen.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A different battle of the Bible</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3820</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3820#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-18T17:12:46Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mollie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Godbeat</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Anglicanism</category>
	<category>People</category>
	<category>Humor</category>
	<category>Mainline</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[With the real estate on airwaves and newsprint getting harder to come by, most religion stories that get published or broadcast deal with politics or major social drama. But some of my favorite stories are the slice-of-life depictions of congregational life. Unlike the impression you may get from the media, it isn&#8217;t all about fighting over doctrinal issues .]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Obama: &#8220;folks are lying&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3819</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3819#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-18T13:01:37Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mollie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Godbeat</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Catholicism</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Mainline</category>
	<category>Voting</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday I noted the importance of the abortion issue to evangelicals at the Saddleback Forum. It&#8217;s also important to Catholics and other religious advocates of pro-life policies &#8212; not that you have to be religious to be pro-life, of course.
Obama has been working hard to appeal to religious voters who, in large part due to the abortion issue, have for decades been reliable supporters of Republican nominees for president.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Missing that other half of the clubhouse</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3806</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3806#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-17T23:19:07Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>dpulliam</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Sports</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3806</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[An article&#8217;s headline sometimes gives away the strength or weakness of a story. This example, from an article in the Quad City Times (Iowa) on the impact religion has on organized sports, gave me little hope that it would have much substance. 
The choice of words &#8212;  &#8220;Strong men, stronger faith: Religion plays central role in many local athletes&#8217; lives&#8221; &#8212; states the obvious.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Above Obama&#8217;s &#8220;pay grade&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3814</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3814#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-17T05:08:39Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mollie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Voting</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[You know that your social life has taken a dramatic downturn when you are sitting at home on a Saturday night watching the Saddleback Church Civil Forum. But I&#8217;ve been interested in whether the long-heralded, loudly trumpeted transition of &#8220;evangelicals&#8221; away from the &#8220;religious right&#8221; is, in fact, true. 
While Obama didn&#8217;t seem to move mountains with the crowd, they did give him a raucous, standing ovation when he arrived on stage.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Clock ticking toward Warren shindig</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3816</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3816#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-16T14:12:51Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Mainline</category>
	<category>Voting</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[I do not know where I will be when the actual Saddleback shindig takes place tonight (I am on the road), but here&#8217;s a few of the latest details about what is supposed to unfold &#8212; via the Los Angeles Times (naturally). Click here for a Times blog item with lots of other gossip and stuff, in the hours before the forum.
This is one case where you really need to read the Associated Press.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Warren, an &#8220;evangelist&#8221; who&#8217;s &#8220;straying&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3811</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3811#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-15T19:54:28Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Godbeat</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>People</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[As the countdown continues until Saturday&#8217;s Saddleback Church &#8220;Civil Forum on the Presidency,&#8221; journalists continue to probe the ministry of Rick &#8220;Purpose Driven Pastor&#8221; Warren. To no one&#8217;s surprise, the big news kid on the preacher&#8217;s block has weighed in on his new, improved, nuanced, broader take on the Gospel.
Guess what? The Los Angeles Times struggled to handle the religion and doctrine details in this scene.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The novel you can not read</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3815</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3815#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-15T15:13:22Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mollie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Academia</category>
	<category>Books</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>World</category>
	<category>Islam</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3815</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Earlier this month, former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani, penned a fascinating, newsbreaking op-ed for the paper:
Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Ms.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Warren as King David (minus Bathsheba)</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3813</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3813#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-14T22:57:08Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stricherz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3813</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[ In case you missed the cover story of this week&#8217;s Time, reporter David Van Biema wrote a profile of evangelical mega-church pastor Rick Warren. He presents Warren as a kind of evangelical King David on a global scale. 
Van Biema&#8217;s thesis is interesting, arresting even.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Tips for reporters covering pro-lifers</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3812</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3812#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-14T17:42:16Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Web/Tech</category>
	<category>Journalism</category>
	<category>Catholicism</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Sex</category>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Let me jump in here with a quick follow-up on my recent post about press coverage of the Democratic Party platform&#8217;s new language on issues linked to abortion and the sanctity of life.
Our friend Steve Waldman, the czar and protector of all things Beliefnet.com, has posted his own observations about the language that came out of meetings between left-of-center Evangelical Protestants &#8212; think Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, et al &#8212; and the people who are charged with helping Sen.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Property of Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3810</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3810#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-14T01:02:35Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>Mark Stricherz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>World Religions</category>
	<category>Judaism</category>
	<category>Islam</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3810</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[You may have heard that the son of a major Hamas leader announced that he is Christian. But if your curiosity was piqued as to why he converted, read Haaretz reporter Avi Issacharoff&#8217;s story about Masab Yousuf.
The article was a model in some ways for religious reporters.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Wooing the liberal pro-life vote, again</title>
		<link>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3808</link>
		<comments>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3808#comments</comments>
		<dc:date>2008-08-14T00:58:45Z</dc:date>
		<dc:creator>tmatt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Catholicism</category>
	<category>Evangelicals</category>
	<category>Mainline</category>
	<category>Voting</category>
		<guid>http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3808</guid>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[What an interesting day this is, here in Beltway land.
In order to read about how the Democratic Party is, on some issues linked to the sanctity of life, reaching out to mainstream Catholics and progressive evangelicals one need only read a solid news report that graces the top of A1 in the Washington Times, under the headline &#8220;Dems shift platform to woo pro-lifers &#8212; Backs adoption, family programs.&#8221; This is, of course, normally a place where one goes for insights into Republican life.]]></content:encoded>
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