In pitching a trend story for a national audience, a headline-friendly catchphrase goes a long way.
How many atheists does it take to form a 'megachurch?'
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Grossman's blog is back: Faith & Reason 2.0 at RNS
One of the first signs that the religion beat was in trouble at USA Today was the decision to shutter veteran scribe Cathy Grossman’s “Faith & Reason” weblog.
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A dynamic, hip, inked leader offers salvation to the left
It says a lot, in this financially tight age in American newsrooms, when editors put a reporter on an airplane and send her halfway across the nation to hear somebody preach.
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Porn no more: Secular students inviting religious discussion
Gone is the “low-hanging fruit” of years past when the media converged on the University of Texas-San Antonio campus each year to produce titillating stories on students exchanging Bibles and Qurans for porn.
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Detroit paper ducks Bible when female Baptist bishop quits
I haven’t been around that many Baptists of late, but one of the first things that struck me in The Detroit Free Press story about Bishop Allyson Nelson Abrams and her departure from the pastorate of Zion Progress Baptist Church was that “bishop” title.
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A Pope Francis story, from the other side of the notebook
Like many GetReligion readers, I was somewhat rattled by that recent Washington Post story about the mainstream press and its love affair with what it thinks Pope Francis is saying about the doctrines of the Catholic church.
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Yet another one-sided AP same-sex marriage story
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Is it time for the old Mainline churches to shed that label?
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#OMG! Christians starting to use Twitter -- details at 11!
Anyone who’s been around the news for a while will notice that, from time to time, media outlets will “discover” something that’s been talked about, elsewhere, for quite some time. Nearly 20 years after the online world of AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe began to morph into the Internet as a place where people can find information about God, at last a metropolitan daily newspaper has learned that Christian folk are using Twitter to communicate with each other.
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