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It’s no secret that evangelical Protestants who are Republicans, or at least those who plan to attend the Iowa caucus next month, support Mike Huckabee. But why do they back him?
Then you click here, where you will read the following by Michael Landauer of the Dallas Morning News.
You may have noticed that the professional sports arena is, well, a bit soiled at the moment. All kinds of people — including some muscular Christians — are finding out that repentance is never an easy thing to do in public.
When dramatic news events occur, early reports can be riddled with errors or, by necessity, relatively shallow. Sometimes the best coverage comes days, weeks, months after the event. Los Angeles Times reporter Nicholas Riccardi had such a piece on Youth With a Mission, the group that was victimized by Matthew Murray in the Colorado shootings earlier this month.
Oh my. Here is a quick, and really mean, little update on the state of The Golden Compass at the box office.
Covering the first Sunday service after a man opened fire in a church would be no easy task. Rocky Mountain News religion writer Jean Torkelson captured a widely expressed sentiment by asking, “What would you expect from your congregation the following week?”
U.S. News & World Report‘s Jay Tolson has an interesting piece that looks at a return to traditionalism amongst Roman Catholics, Evangelicals, Jews and Muslims. Because the article attempts to cover so much important ground, it ends up being necessarily shallow. I think journalists and editors think they are being more respectful of major religions by including so many in stories such as this one, but they end up doing every religion a disservice through superficial treatment.
Time‘s Jay Newton-Small reports on presidential aspirant Fred Thompson’s work in Iowa. Though he’s trailing behind Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, Thompson is gaining some traction by offering himself up as the true conservative in the race:
