Could the Sunday article in The Washington Post‘s Style section on families turning from money to faith have been told without mentioning religion at all?
Judging God v. Mammon
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To pray or not to pray
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Catholics ponder abortion rights
The big religion story with voters this year has been white evangelicals. Will they remain supporters of pro-life Republican candidates or will they drift leftward? Despite the thousands of column inches devoted to the topic, it looks like they’ve remained largely in the GOP camp — although anything could happen.
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No interest? No problem.
Over the past few years, we’ve seen stories about Muslim rules prohibiting interest payments. Usually these stories are in a non-US context and deal with Muslim banking in general. But this wonderful Associated Press story looked at the issue in a distinctly American context:
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Mass confusion
Writing about Episcopalians befuddles journalists. Part of the conundrum, for anyone trying to cover one of the many property disputes and international realignments, is that the situation is so fluid that you really need a scorecard to keep track of all the players.
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Holy tongue in cheek?
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New York Times is anti-Hindu?
The Hindu American Foundation is very upset with the New York Times because of its ongoing coverage of anti-Christian violence in the Orissa State in eastern India, leading to a series of three letters calling for coverage that focuses more attention on the role of Christian missionaries in that region.
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Baylor Lariat rounds up a ghost
You know something interesting is taking place on a campus when your student newspaper ends up being quoted in the New York Times. When your school is the world’s largest Baptist university, you just know that this is rarely going to be good news.
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The church of baseball
So what do you do if you’re a religion reporter during the post-season of Major League Baseball? If you’re the Boston Globe‘s Michael Paulson, you write a fantastic feature combining baseball and religion:
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