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This year has produced no shortage of Mormonism coverage with Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman in the presidential race. If you want a continual source for Mormon news, be sure to follow the work of Peggy Fletcher Stack, a reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune, located in Mormon central.
Let’s say that you have these Southern guys who are willing — for $2,000 or so — to show up at your house or camp out on your property and perform some kind of deep-fried mostly secular exorcism.
Many GetReligion readers will recall that I grew up in Texas as the son of a Southern Baptist pastor. I spent my teen years in Port Arthur, which was and is a rather hellish refinery town on Lake Sabine, on the Texas-Louisiana border. It’s best known as the hometown of Janis Joplin and, trust me, I have always understood where she caught the blues.
So, what did your local church do to celebrate the Feast of St. Nicholas this past week, on Dec. 6th?
Before we examine a slice or two of this recent New York Times piece about Bishop Eddie L. Long, I feel the need to ask a few basic questions about this troubled church leader’s theology.
What we have here is one of those puzzling or even coffee-spewing (for those who drink coffee) moments when you are reading through a perfectly normal story involving religious themes and you hit a reference that makes you stop and say, “Did I just read what I thought I read?”
I’m talking about a newspaper feature that neither ignores faith nor exaggerates it in painting the portrait of its main characters.
What do you need to do to get featured in the New York Times? Just get a Facebook group of about 800 people, apparently. The website Stuff Journalists Like noted a trend of journalists who love the social network.
Anyone who has followed religion coverage in the mainstream press in recent decades should be familiar with the byline of Don Lattin.
