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While the votes have been announced in those two historic Episcopal parishes, we really won’t know much about the actual media coverage of this event until tomorrow’s full-length reports are out in the elite newspapers.
Tomorrow is a giant news day in the Anglican wars, which is a global story that also has an American angle, a New York City angle, a Virginia angle and a Washington suburbs angle.
I don’t want to let the week go without highlighting an amazing article from The Washington Post. Laura Sessions Stepp had truly amazing access to a few members of the Billy Graham family as they tried to work out a major family disagreement.
One of the goals of GetReligion is to have a two-way conversation with journalists. We do that in the posts and comments pages, of course, but we also want to try something new.
This week The Denver Post‘s Eric Gorski broke a story about a Colorado megachurch pastor resigning amid allegations of homosexual conduct. The congregation in question is, like Ted Haggard’s New Life Church, down the road from where I grew up.
If you are like me, you are reading all of the Christmas Wars stories (hey, I do have a degree in church-state studies) but you are also getting sick of them. Sick. Of. Them.
If you are a steady consumer of Anglican Civil War coverage, you probably turned to this morning’s Washington, D.C., newspapers with a sense of anticipation — knowing that members in some of America’s most prosperous and historic Episcopal parishes started voting Sunday (emphasis on the word “started”) on proposals to exit the Diocese of Virginia and the progressive national church.
Somehow we missed this when we discussed coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Turkey. We discussed this Dec. 1 article from the Los Angeles Times’ Tracy Wilkinson.
We here at GetReligion typically like just about everything the Los Angeles Times’ Stephanie Simon writes. She thrives on writing highly descriptive narratives that manage to touch on all sorts of issues, usually with religious themes. For instance, her piece on abortion still sticks in my mind and is a must read for journalists covering the subject.
