The first word that a journalist needs to think of when writing about former Sen. Rick Santorum is “conservative” and the second is “Catholic.”
Is candidate Rick Santorum an "evangelist"?
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American politicos actually changing "religions"?
Many GetReligion readers will recall that I grew up in Texas as the son of a Southern Baptist pastor. I spent my teen years in Port Arthur, which was and is a rather hellish refinery town on Lake Sabine, on the Texas-Louisiana border. It’s best known as the hometown of Janis Joplin and, trust me, I have always understood where she caught the blues.
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Mitt Romney's not-so-secret elves
It’s no secret that David and Nancy French have been supporters of Mitt Romney and want other evangelicals to join with them. They even built a website in 2006 around the idea. Time magazine just discovered the couple, though, and they want you to know about it.
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In Lowe's 'backlash,' a fair hearing?
I first learned about the home-improvement chain Lowe’s pulling its advertising from a Muslim reality show when I came across a Religion News Service report over the weekend. The subject interested me, in part, because I wrote a recent Christianity Today story on corporate boycotts.
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When reporters make mistakes
That’s the summary behind “Regret the Error,” a site that tracks journalism mistakes (which, coincidentally, is headed over to Poynter). And when mistakes do happen, the evolving pace of news and reporting on web is changing the way journalists correct their reports.
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Do you believe in Tebow?
I bleed Orange and Blue, which means that I’m having a great year. My Denver Broncos, who were completely out of the running just a few games in, somehow managed to tie for first place in the AFC West last week. And this week we — yes, I’m a key component of the team’s success — had another amazing win in overtime to get first place on our own. I had already psychologically prepared for this week’s loss. We were behind 10-0 with just minutes remaining in the 4th quarter. Unbelievable.
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Evangelical Pujols to the highest bidder?
That was my immediate question this morning to my GetReligion colleague — and St. Louis Cardinals uber-fan — Mollie Ziegler Hemingway as news broke that superstar first baseman Albert Pujols will sign a 10-year, $254 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels. MZ, alas, remains out of wifi and Internet range — although this story may reach her through some psychic or spiritual ripple in the universe.
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Oops: TV station mistakenly reports Billy Graham's death
Journalists seem pretty good at recalling where they read a story and often who wrote it. But let’s be honest: does the average media consumer remember where he or she read, heard or listened to a story?
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Newt, Newsweek, evangelicals & Rome
Before we get to one of the Beltway issues of day — the surging Newt Gingrich and the evangelicals of Iowa — I have a question for GetReligion readers who are, or have been, Newsweek subscribers in recent years.
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