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My educational background is in economics, not journalism or religion. Which means I had to sit through approximately eleventy billion hours of math and statistics coursework in college. I think reporters and editors could use a dose of math themselves — if only to avoid their ever present confusion about percentages.
Late last month, GetReligion considered the work of Marilynne Robinson — especially in response to an ill-founded claim by Ruth Franklin in The New Republic that Robinson is a fierce opponent of predestination.
The cover story on this week’s Washington Post Sunday magazine was a 7,000-word treatise on a medical student deciding whether to become an abortion doctor.
Bob Jones University is probably best known at this point for the 2000 presidential campaign controversy involving its ban on interracial dating. After then-candidate George W. Bush spoke there, he was criticized, and the ban was lifted on CNN’s Larry King Live show by the university’s then-president Bob Jones III.
For public schools in Washington, despite their spending an average of $25,000 per year on each student, the educational results are abysmal. Some people have high hopes for the new chancellor Michelle Rhee but there’s a long way to go.
The new post by the Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc about the Obama family, National Episcopal Cathedral and the theological musings by the seeker-friendly agnostic Sally Quinn reminded me of something I have been meaning to do for some time now.
As far as I can tell, there is no faith, no religion, no hope and no positive sense of morality in the following story.
Some of this blog’s readers regurarly object to sports stories that deal with religion, particularly when they deal with professional athletes who are paid millions of dollars to play a game. I generally hold that regardless of salaries, the religious angles in athletes’ lives are generally relevant since they are part of the make-up of a person who has a faith.
Surely, this Baltimore Sun Navy Academy feature story breaks some kind of record for most uses of forms of the words “faith” and “prayer” in a sports story. But if you’re looking for facts and details, forget it.
