The Washington Post had a religion news blog item last week headlined, horrifyingly, “âSome girls have been married 60 times by the time they turn 18′.”
Married 60 times before age 18 in Egypt
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Remember when Jesus went to Assiut? (Yeah, me neither.)
“Both Roman Catholic and Evangelical Protestant media have for years been drawing public attention to the persecution of Christians in many countries,” says the renowned sociologist of religion, Peter Berger. “Secular media have been less attentive; some have ascribed this to an anti-Christian bias; I rather doubt thisâmore likely it comes from the fact that many otherwise well-informed journalists are less informed on religious matters.”
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Major Nidal Hasan talks about faith, like it or not
Some may disagree, but I think we have reached the point where we can say that journalists in the mainstream press are going to have trouble keeping the religion angle out of the coverage of the Fort Hood trial of U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan.
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The truly interfaith church of what's happening now
From the very beginning of this weblog, your GetReligionistas have argued that some of America’s most important religion stories are taking place on the Religious Left, even on the evangelical and Pentecostal left. I still believe that.
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Snickering at FoxNews while getting duped by 'Zealot' author
Many of us who came of age during the birth of New Media are reflexively defensive about the medium’s journalistic credibility. We defy the outdated notion that real journalism is printed on paper or broadcast on TV screen. Quality journalism is as likely to be found on a blog as in a newspaper or in a web video as on a cable news channel.
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NPR's curiously biased quest for the historical Jesus
Did you know that Jesus wasn’t really God? Despite what his disciples claim, he never believed he was the Messiah, much less God incarnate. He was a merely a Jewish revolutionary that was crucified by the Roman Empire and later deified (quite literally) by people who really didn’t know him.
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Who's afraid of les jeunes of France?
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Muhammad marketing mishaps in Sydney
I’d hammer in the morning, I’d hammer in the evening, All over this land, I’d hammer out danger, I’d hammer out a warning, I’d hammer out love between, My brothers and my sisters, All over this land.
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Doing the bloody math in an emerging civil war in Egypt
It appears that some members of the mainstream press are beginning to do the hard, bloody math in Egypt.
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