Lisa Miller is the religion editor at Newsweek. You may remember her from that very unjournalistic cover story she wrote purporting to advance a religious case for same-sex marriage.
Knowing your beat
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"Devout," "born-again" killers
We may need to start some kind of petition to the Associated Press to ask for some kind of warning in the stylebook about use of the word “devout” when used to describe religious believers. We have seen similar issues with the word “practicing” in front of the word “Catholic.”
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Newt swims the Tiber
So former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was received into the Roman Catholic Church this past weekend. He had been Baptist. For most people, conversion isn’t exactly a political event. But when you’re a prominent Republican whose name is being mentioned as a possible future candidate for President, well, everything is political.
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LA Times Counter-Reformation?
As much of an innovator as he was, the 16th-century Scottish reformer John Knox might still be shocked.
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5Q+1: Ari Goldman is in the house
Not to bury the lede or anything, by when it comes to religion writing, Prof. Ari L. Goldman of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has been there and done that. During his two decades at the New York Times, he was one of the nation’s most trusted bylines on the religion beat and I have heard that judgment voiced by a stunningly broad range of clergy and Godbeat critics.
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One crime, many tragedies
The furor over the nine-year-old who had twins aborted after allegations that her stepfather raped her has focused media attention what appears to be a tragedy of broader scope–the numbers of children sexually abused in Brazil.
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Cue the theme from "Jaws"
So, are many newsrooms in the allegedly “American” media poised to plunge back into history and become “European” newspapers again, publications that openly advocate specific political and even theological points of view?
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Got news? State Department edition
I thought I’d wait to write this post until I saw mainstream media coverage of one particular aspect of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. And then, thousands of stories about the visit to Mexico later, I realized that the press wasn’t going to be covering it.
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Silence of the Christian book sellers
This may be turning into a “theme week” for me here at GetReligion. Call it the “dog that didn’t bark” week. Or maybe I need to run that lighthouse joke — again. Remember that one?
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