This just in from The Associated Press: Southern Baptists are having a tough time.
Southern Baptists on the downhill statistical slide?
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Political reporters learn about St. Augustine. Chaos ensues.
You’ll never guess what uncontroversial Christian doctrine this Republican candidate and/or office-holder believes!
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Seven questions about Boy Scout gay policy coverage
Headlines over the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to allow openly gay members are still flying fast and furious.
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Dueling Christian coverage, or Ira Glass vs. National Journal
Above is a nice little snippet of an Ira Glass interview. Interview of Ira Glass, I should say. The popular host of public radio’s This American Life reflects on why the show does so much good coverage of Christians. It’s because the media do such a bad job of covering them otherwise, he says. He says the Christians he knows and works with — including the “fundamentalists” — are nothing like how Christians are portrayed in the media.
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The press has found the next enemy -- adoptive families
When my husband and I began the adoption process, we had no idea how controversial it would become. There are many stories being written these days harshly critiquing Christians who adopt children.
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Evangelicalism is political, but not a political movement
How many political issues do American evangelicals care about? Apparently, just two: abortion and same-sex marriage. At least that is the impression you’d get if you read about evangelicals in the mainstream press.
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Pod people: Concerning the IRS and the God squads
It’s a basic fact of life in American politics that nothing fires up the non-profit sector on the political right like the election of a strong president whose voter base is on the religious, cultural and political left.
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God and faith in Oklahoma tornado coverage
In my first-person account of the Moore, Okla., tornado last week, I predicted that the faith and resiliency of the state’s residents would be a major theme in media coverage.
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After the Boy Scouts? For a few, camping with doctrine
When considering the forces pulling at the Boy Scouts of America, one thing journalists really needed to consider was a simple statistical chart that can be found (.pdf) on the organization’s homepage. Here are the crucial numbers found at the top of this file:
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