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Ah, December — the month of office parties, hearing “Jingle Bell Rock” in airports and reading incessant Top 10 lists. Time is ahead of the pack this year, rolling out 50 lists, and David Van Biema does the honors on the year’s top religion stories.
I cannot say this with absolute certainty, but the religious aspects of President George W. Bush’s ABC interviews are making bigger waves overseas than in the United States. Part of that might be due to the news of a certain stink emanating from Chicago (even this Indianapolis resident can smell it!). Another aspect may be that U.S. news outlets are less willing to report on a competitor’s exclusive interview.
The astounding historical and religious significance of last week’s attack is just now being revealed. Some of Tmatt’s questions from yesterday on why these terrorists targeted Jews have been answered, but much remains to be determined and many tough questions must be answered by journalists.
So let’s say that some very zealous, very strange missionaries arrived in a complex, multifaith city — perhaps even Mumbai, India.
I have been struggling to catch up with the coverage of the Mumbai coverage, since I was tucked away in a remote corner of the North Carolina mountains with my family when the story broke.
In a brisk 830 words, Robert D. Kaplan of The Atlantic explains some of the smoldering tensions that led to this past week’s slaughter in Mumbai.
Three days into the crisis, the horrific terrorist attacks in India’s financial capital continue to be unresolved. The focus of the reporting has been on the all-important details of where, what, and who has been hurt or killed.
Just the other day, I paid my first-ever visit to that amazing campus on the hillside above Oakland — the University of California at Berkeley.
So the protests against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of its support for Proposition 8 are continuing and receiving quite a bit of mainstream media coverage. Proposition 8 passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as an institution involving one man and one woman. Stories involve everything from Mormon churches being vandalized to large-scale protests in urban areas.
