Godbeat

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Time discovers Carol Anderson

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In the June 28 issue of Time, David Van Biema writes four sharp mini-profiles of women in “tall-steeple” ministries. Women’s ordination remains a volatile issue in many denominations, fraught with feminists’ charges of discrimination and traditionalists’ charges of compromising the faith.


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Getting religion: So many God-beat stories, so little time

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Yesterday was one of those days when it was frustrating to be a God-beat blogger. You may have noticed that the U.S. Supreme Court punted on the “Under God” pledge case. I’m sure this was a great relief on the Democratic side of the church aisle and a disappointment to the Republicans. A strong, clear decision would have been great for fundraising on both sides.


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Prayer & jargon

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Oliver Pritchett of the Telegraph knocks it out of the park in satirizing Christian Aid’s Pocket Prayers for Peace and Justice. The one example Pritchett cites from Pocket Prayers is quite enough: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death” becomes “Even if a full-scale violent confrontation breaks out I will not be afraid, Lord.”


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And this just in: GetReligion has a worldview

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For years, professional religion reporters have debated what to say when a source or newsmaker turns and asks: “Hey, reporter, what in the world do you believe?” A decade or so ago, the Religion Newswriters Association even held a workshop on the topic, allowing Godbeat veterans to talk shop on this prickly subject.


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Hitting a nerve: Politics, class, morality, social issues, religion, news

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When Doug and I started GetReligion.org, I decided early on I would not post my Scripps Howard News Service columns week after week. If anyone wants to see them, they can go to tmatt.net or even get on the listserv. But I am posting some info on this week’s column for a simple reason: It continues a discussion we have already been having on this site about the recent survey of journalists released by the Pew Research Center and the Project for Excellence in Journalism.


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