All of the early headlines took the same approach: “Billy Graham’s Wife Ruth Dies.”
Much more than the preacher's wife
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Online confession, round two
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The press gets political religion
Matt Stearns of the McClatchy Washington Bureau has a nice piece in the The Sacramento Bee that deals with the religious faith of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. The essence of the story is that McCain, while known to have professed a Christian faith, is not that vocal about it, and some say this is hurting him at the most and a missed opportunity at the least.
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Will Romney upset ... the Mormons?
The Los Angeles Times recently ran a commentary piece that perfectly captured in a single word the reason that Mitt Romney will — sadly — continue to face questions about his Mormon faith.
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Gracia Burnham's hands-free Vulcan mind meld
One of the pleasures of contemporary journalism is that it brings together a writer and subject who at first seem an unlikely pair. In this case the pairing is of poet and journalist Eliza Griswold with Gracia Burnham, missionary to the Philippines and former captive of Abu Sayyaf rebels, whose husband was shot to death during a rescue that saved Gracia.
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A bodyguard during the liturgy?
I am back at my desk in Washington, D.C., but my mind is still in Istanbul (and, as you would expect, my confused body does not know exactly where it is).
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A schism among pro-lifers?
Two of the nation’s leading newspapers, theLos Angeles Times and The Washington Post, ran stories within days of each other that deal with the apparent recent crackup in the pro-life movement. The news is not an earthshaking development but another note in the history of the abortion wars in the United States.
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More on that Media Matters study
Every now and then, a topic covered here at GetReligion kind of hangs around in my mind and turns into one of my weekly “On Religion” columns for the Scripps Howard News Service. That’s what happened this week.
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Lightning strikes outshine substance
Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani’s joke after lightning disrupted the sound system at a debate hall as he started talking about his position on abortion has picked up a decent number of news notes around the Internet, in newspapers and on television newscasts. CBS News has a good summary for those of you who missed it:
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