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In my 20-year reporting career, I’ve covered wildfires, floods and tornadoes. In 1995, I heard the explosion at the bombed federal building in Oklahoma City and raced that direction. Never, though, had I seen the kind of devastation that followed Hurricane Katrina five years ago.
Once upon a time, I had one of the best seats at the famous “Stand in the Gap” rally held on the National Mall in 1997 by the Promise Keepers organization, since I served as a kind of religion-news color commentator for MSNBC — the only network that covered that massive event from dawn to dusk.
The Associated press reports that former President Jimmy Carter has secured the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes:
Reuters has a story about a U.S. district court ruling that may interest GetReligion readers. The lede explains what’s going on best:
The Washington Post ran an intriguing story Sunday about the apparent lack of state funding to provide Muslim chaplains in Virginia prisons.
Yes, Christian rockstars are real. But Katy Perry isn’t one. She years ago gave up on Christian music, and her image is anything but.
I frequently mention how much I appreciate interesting stories about day-to-day religious life. A few weeks ago we looked at that great New York Times piece about how different religious adherents live out their faith in their residential choices.
One of my personal — and professional — weaknesses is my short attention span. After reading about 57 stories on the same subject, be it a clergy sex abuse scandal or a fight over where to build a mosque, my eyes glaze over.
