Religion? Uh, surely that’s not a factor worth exploring.
Which religious group should be blamed for the election results?
Well, everyone, we made it through another presidential campaign year! Congratulations to the winners and condolences to the losers and all that.
The day after: The prophet John Green, revisited
It should be a quiet day on the religion-beat front, in the wake of yesterday’s nail-biters in the real world of politics. If the past repeats itself, as it often does, it will take a few days for the religion elements of the story to emerge, other than the usual “Obama won the Catholic vote (whatever that is)” headlines.
God, gang graffiti and gunfire in L.A.
A heartwrenching story appears on the front page of today’s Los Angeles Times (see a television report here) on a worshiper killed outside a church:
Top 10 ways BuzzFeed doesn't get Christianity
Two minor media incidents yesterday made me wonder if some of the problems we see with how religion news is covered relates simply to language differences. The first came about in a panel discussion about whether Hurricane Sandy had any political implications. (By the way, see if you can find any ghosts in this New York Times video “Lights Out In Rockaway” about the rough situation those in Queens continue to face a week after the storm hit. The folks in the video say that FEMA and the Red Cross have been AWOL, but I noticed that some relief workers had shirts indicating they were part of religious relief efforts.)
Pearls before Net commenters (or a Godbeat gem)
A reader sent along this story in the Washington Post headlined “Parents accept daughter’s rare illness as’âGod’s will’” with a note:
Risking lives to save souls in Mexico
Before I left on a mission trip south of the U.S. border this past spring, a Facebook friend was so kind as to post a State Department warning for all of us “crazy enough to travel to Mexico.”
Halloween: trick or treat for Christians?
In yet another case of liberal bias by GetReligion, tmatt screamed “Boooo!” the other day at a one-sided story praising Halloween evangelism.
Evangelicals warming to Mormon Romney?
A recent front-page Los Angeles Times story makes the case that reluctant evangelical Christian voters are warming to Mormon Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee.
