Hey, did you hear that there was some kind of decision yesterday at the U.S. Supreme Court?
Pod people: GetReligion news alert
RELIGIONNEWSVILLE, Cyberspace (GR) â In a podcast now available online, GetReligion contributor Bobby “Bible Belt” Ross admits dropping the ball in his recent critique of media coverage of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.
Historic election for Southern Baptists
Westboro nutjobs protest Billy Graham
As we’ve lamented a few times (or a million) here at GetReligion, nobody puts on a staged-for-media hatefest like the spiritual termites of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Ronald J. Sider, a "conservative" politico?
As the battles continue over religious liberty issues — by which I mean battles over issues that the White House has described as having religious-liberty implications — journalists continue to struggle with that old, old issue of simplistic labeling.
Richard Land has layers
In one of my favorite scenes in the original 2001 “Shrek” movie, the title character explains to Donkey that “there’s a lot more to ogres than people think.”
Doc Watson: He was a pilgrim
When you’re talking about Doc Watson, the place to start is here: He was a superstar in old-time folk music, which is the rare art form in which the word “tradition” is not a curse.
Plotting about "religious liberty"
Some news organizations are working in their editorials and opinion pieces (if not elsewhere) — to downplay, denigrate or outright dismiss the religious liberty concerns some Americans have expressed recently. And yet, particularly when it comes to a new federal mandate requiring some religious organizations to violate their doctrines or face strict fines and penalties, people keep expressing these concerns.
