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I have made it back safe and sound from exploring various mountain regions in the American West, often on small commercial airplanes. The air over the Rockies isn’t all that smooth this time of year. Take my word for it.
Julie Sullivan of Religion News Service has a good article on the current position evangelical Christians hold on the war in Iraq. Their position is significant because it has been their support that gave Republicans undivided rule of Washington for six consecutive years. Evangelicals have also been some of Bush’s most consistent supporters.
The most recent USA Today/Gallup poll shows a huge drop in support for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney while a relatively politically untested former senator who is best known as a television actor has moved into third place in the Republican Party’s nominating race for the presidency.
Why in the world would Republicans ever think that an actor could bring together the religious and economic conservative bases of their party? Oh, wait …
It is rare that we get to hear someone on the left side of the church aisle tee off and blast a major media institution, accusing it of being unethical and, yes, biased.
So the big it is mentioned within first three paragraphs of all the major stories on this week’s announcement that the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops rejected a demand from the Anglican Communion’s primates to establish a separate leadership structure for dissenting U.S. dioceses and parishes.
This is one case in which I am tempted to simply haul off and print an entire online commentary by a famous writer, claiming that it is a guest column for GetReligion.
The BBC’s Heaven & Earth show found in a recent poll that one third of all Christians in the United Kingdom think that the media portray them in a way that amounts to discrimination.
