This is not going to be a typical week here at GetReligion, so I thought I would let readers know what is going on and what to expect.
When religion & baseball intersect
I love writing about religion and economics, but my true passion is baseball. If I could combine writing about baseball with writing about religion or economics, that would be the best.
Hell isn't for real?
Some people look at Newsweek‘s precipitous decline as an example of how to destroy a magazine. (Its most recent issue had six ads.) Other people apparently want to emulate it. Or so I’m led to believe by TIME magazine’s decision to have former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham write its cover story celebrating Rob Bell and his views on hell.
Confirmation on Kate's confirmation?
Even though I’m the mother of two young girls, I’m not worried about them getting caught up in the whole princess complex. My husband is some kind of anti-royalist so he keeps any princess talk in check. Last time the girls tried to dress up as princesses, my husband gave them a lecture on Constitutional governance.
Following the money in Afghanistan
As I get all curmudgeonly in my old age, one of my pet peeves is the media’s schizophrenic treatment of certain news. The hot story of one day is completely forgotten the next. Or the insane, around-the-clock coverage of Terry Jones’ threat to burn a Koran is dropped for some reason, then briefly re-engaged for a blamefest before getting dropped again. What gets left out is any thorough discussion of the heady mix that led to the murderous rampage in Afghanistan.
Tables turned: Our Sarah on 'ghosts'
When it comes to the day jobs held by your GetReligionistas, Sarah Pulliam Bailey is the team member who is probably in the most interesting, or even delicate, position.
Good Friday, meet Earth Day
I’m a sucker for stories about the liturgical calendar, so my eyes lit up when I saw the headline for Chris Moody’s piece at The Daily Caller:
Get the Plain Dealer a rotary phone
I don’t know what the Roman Catholic Church did to anger Michael O’Malley and the editors of Cleveland’s Plain Dealer but I am curious. The reader who passed the story “Breakaway Catholic flock flourishing in New York” along wrote:

