Following on the tails of last week’s post on pagans was this news story involving the widows of two U.S. combat veterans suing the federal government for refusing to let them place Wiccan symbols on their husbands’ headstones. As a side note, if you’re interested in more information on pagans, peruse the comments on that post. We received a surprising number of responses with links and info on the wide variety of pagan beliefs in the world these days.
Sports reporters turning to God
The domain of sports reporting often overlaps into religion, and appropriately so. The best sports reporting focuses on people, and people are often religious.
Did Democrats win with pew voters?
While most election results came in Tuesday night, it was not until Saturday morning, appropriately, that we discovered where values voters stood.
What do pagans believe?
In the age of the Internet, what do those sometimes entertaining, often overlooked, free weekly tabloids do to be independent and different from everything else out there? One way is by exploring offbeat subjects that will get overlooked for various reasons in the main paper or television news broadcast.
When faith matters on the battlefield
The flurry of election-related news this past week has kept me from noting an excellent piece in The New York Times last week that is absolutely superb and touching in its handling of a sniper situation in Iraq. Reporter C.J. Chivers, with the help of producer Eric Owles, supplemented the article with an equally poignant photo gallery and voiceover.
Has Colorado Springs' power peaked?
Last week, The Denver Post‘s Eric Gorski gave us the marching orders from Focus on the Family founder James Dobson. Then the Rev. Ted Haggard madness broke open and Dobson’s words to evangelicals were lost in an avalanche of news coverage.
Hearing different Sunday morning messages
A Jewish candidate and a Catholic candidate square off in a statewide race with national implications. What happened the Sunday before Election Day? They went to church, of course.
Covering a story driven by electronic media
As a print journalist, I often wince when important news stories are driven by the radio and television. Accusations fly quickly and responses are hastily arranged. Even in the age of the Internet, stories driven by print reporters develop more slowly. Facts tend to be treated with greater care when they are handled by individuals independent of the situation than by accusers and the accused.
Missing Mayor O'Malley's faith
The Washington Post‘s 2,300-word profile of Martin O’Malley left me in a state of confusion. How does one write about a talkative Irish guy who speaks of his “Jesuit ideal of being ‘a man for others’” without mentioning his religious affiliation or exploring how this shaped his political philosophy?
