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Presidential primary season is approaching, of course, which means that it’s time for reporters to start dancing around the Mormon issues that will be swirling around Mitt Romney.
In the fast-growing Bible Belt community where I live, it’s not uncommon to see portable church signs outside public school buildings on Sundays.
Now here is a totally fascinating New York Times story about charter schools. I am not sure whether or not it has a hidden religion angle in it and, as always, this is my point.
I’ve frequently discussed my dislike of religiously ignorant reporters playing theological “gotcha” with political candidates. Sometimes I will be sitting in church and listening to a sermon and just imagining how completely and thoroughly a reporter might miss the point, the context, the tradition, the nuance, the proper distinction of the Law and the Gospel, etc.
We don’t typically spend too much time looking at mainstream movie or book reviews, but I thought the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review was worth looking at. For one, it’s written by Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times. For another, the Review has this curious note from “the editors”:
Right up front, let me confess that I really had my hopes up when I started reading the Washington Post story that ran under the following headline: “Justices who will shape Supreme Courtâs future are matching pairs.”
The following post is not really about Franklin Graham and his upcoming festival targeting Latinos in the greater Los Angeles area.
However, it is silly for a reason. There is an interesting hole in the following story — maybe. I mean, there may be a journalistic hole in the story. Then again, there may be a somewhat obvious religion hole in the event or the trend that the story is about. I do not know.
There is this famous, historic Catholic school in Catonsville, Md., which is an old suburb of Baltimore, called Mount de Sales Academy.
