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The general consensus in the press this morning was that the North Carolina marriage amendment vote was all about religion. This is certainly the theme that emerges in some of the stories and photographs featured in The Politico email round-up.
After one of the most incredible hitting performances in baseball history Tuesday night â including four home runs and a double â Josh Hamilton immediately gave credit to God.
I have three questions, after reading the latest New York Times news report about why President Barack Obama is hurting his chances in the upcoming election with his ongoing reticence to let his beliefs on marriage completely evolve into agreement with, well, the great Gray Lady herself.
A front-page expose by the New York Times on a television ministry’s lavish spending ought to be shocking reading, right?
Back in the days when I was a full-time religion reporter (soon after the cooling of the earth’s crust), the annual event that pulled the most religion writers into the same zip code was the annual slugfest between the left and right wings of the Southern Baptist Convention. This was especially true in the years before the conservatives firmly took control, back when one hold-up-your-red-cards vote to name a convention president could literally determine who appointed the trustees that ran the whole shooting match.
You know it’s election season when reporters start to take note of evangelicals a bit more than usual.
A reader sent in this very good NPR story about Michael Morton, a man who was freed from a life sentence in prison for murdering his wife after 25 years. He was exonerated thanks to exculpatory DNA evidence. But the story is about much more than one of the many men who have been freed thanks to DNA evidence. Morton and his advocates want the people who withheld some of the evidence that would have cast doubt on his guilt held accountable.
A few weeks ago, we all sighed in unison over The Atlantic‘s piece on the emerging church’s supposed connection to Invisible Children, the group behind the viral video Kony 2012.
