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Earlier this year, I complained about the lack of coverage surrounding President Barack Obamaâs confession of Christian faith at a pre-Easter Easter breakfast he hosted at the White House. I wrote:
Faithful GetReligion readers and others who walk the religion beat will know the byline of Mark I. Pinsky, who in news circles is best known for his work at the Los Angeles Times and then at the Orlando Sentinel. Then there is another circle — mainly people who consume and study popular culture — who know him as the author of “The Gospel According to the Simpsons” and several other volumes of pop-culture criticism, with a religious bent.
Yes, gentle readers, it’s time for another visit with Sheila, the oh-so-American individualist who is at the center of the growing, ongoing movement that many call “Sheila-ism.”
It’s a National Football League Sunday, so that usually means that it’s time for another Godtalk in sports segment.
Warning: This week’s Crossroads — the GetReligion.org podcast — contains some material that many faithful readers of this here weblog will find truly shocking. It will not, however, shock those who have been paying close attention to discussions of “equal access” laws and similar church-state skirmishes.
I know “Pat Robertson says something shocking” hasn’t been a man-bites-dog story in decades. But occasionally his comments are interesting enough to warrant media attention. Or, as Religion News Service put it yesterday:
Someone posed this question to me last night: If Rick Perry is to the GOP as Howard Dean was to the Democrats in 2004, does that make Mitt Romney the eventual nominee from Massachusetts? And does that mean the incumbent will probably win?
Yesterday, Bobby looked at media coverage of 9/11 commemorations. There are some interesting stories to be found in who was and who wasn’t invited and what people think about it. In Washington, the commemoration will be an interfaith service. In New York, clergy aren’t part of the program.
