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I knew we had to take a look at Newsweek‘s cover story when I read the first line. It was just that bad. It was written by senior editor Lisa Miller who oversees all of the magazine’s religion coverage. Which is pretty shocking when you look at the unbelievable ignorance on display in her grossly unfair first paragraph:
Only days after the fall of the Soviet Union, I had a chance to talk with several veteran Russian Orthodox priests about the future of their church in Russia.
I’m always amazed at how few people know that the Salvation Army is a denomination. People always think of it as a charity, which it is. But it’s also a denomination. Internally organized like a military service, the church has a reputation for serving the poor and destitute. And there’s the red kettle bell-ringing campaign that is ubiquitous around this time of year.
As the popular vote in California relating to how marriage is defined continues to meet with disapproval from Hollywood and others, the Associated Press has an article about where to place the blame for how the vote went down.
This is one of those weeks when one of my more personal posts here at GetReligion evolved into a rare first-person column for the Scripps Howard News Service.
As you would expect, the Anglican wars receive quite a bit of attention in the major newspapers today with the announcement by conservatives that they are forming the Anglican Church in North America, as opposed to the U.S. Episcopal Church.
Some local ads here in Washington by a national humanist group have been causing quite a stir. Which is precisely what advocacy groups — and businesses, for that matter — want when launching an ad campaign. So kudos to them for getting some solid earned media with that ad buy.
I receive Communion at my church at least once a week and yet I have never contemplated where my congregation gets our bread and wine. So I was fascinated by a light feature in the Boston Globe about a local company that makes Communion wafers.
My educational background is in economics, not journalism or religion. Which means I had to sit through approximately eleventy billion hours of math and statistics coursework in college. I think reporters and editors could use a dose of math themselves — if only to avoid their ever present confusion about percentages.
