Now why in the world didn’t I think to write this column?
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CNN: God's Warriors are hurting us
As promised, here is a review of the first installment of CNN’s series God’s Warriors hosted by Christiane Amanpour. The topic for tonight is “God’s Jewish Warriors.” I raised the question Monday of whether the series would engage in moral equivalency by lumping together extremists (or God’s warriors) from Christianity, Judaism and Islam. As one reader asked, where are the Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism?
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God's Warriors: blatant moral equivalency
Christiane Amanpour’s CNN series, God’s Warriors, seems to be a well-intended effort at explaining in-depth religious issues prominent in today’s world. Amanpour deserves credit for raising the visibility of international issues. That she has a total of six hours of prime-time television over the course of three days this week to focus on these issues is also a plus.
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Sources, anyone?
An Episcopal priest in Louisiana sent along a story that ran on KSLA-TV in Shreveport. The provocative headline — “Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared” — promises a juicy story. Particularly for civil libertarians like myself who fear just such hypotheticals. Here’s the lede:
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The uncovered story of religious repression
One of the things we like to do at GetReligion is watch a story develop and jump on it once the momentum has reached a certain level (or that could just be whenever we get around to it). That can work with those multiple-day stories that are likely to make it into the newsweeklies, while other times the stories are built on similar themes over a longer stretch of time.
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What do emerging churches believe?
Eileen Flynn of the Austin American-Statesman had a huge package of stories on the emerging Christian church movement, both in Austin and throughout the country. The four-story series (here, here, here and here), along with solid photos by Laura Skelding, covers the emergent church movement that started in the late 1990s by a group of young Christians who worried about the gap between traditional churches and young people without formal church backgrounds or were frustrated with traditional churches.
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Born again, and again, and again ...
One of my guilty pleasures is reading the little BeliefWatch column that runs each week near the front of Newsweek.
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Hot, hellish paraphrased Oxford quote
Have you ever been reading a news story and hit a paraphrased quotation — as opposed to a verbatim direct quote — that made you stop and mutter, “Now wait a minute! Did that person really say that? Does the reporter actually have a recording of that?”
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Has violence boosted devotion in Iraq?
Who would have thought that a religion story out of Iraq, or the Middle East for that matter, would have something to do with subjects unrelated to headscarves and terrorism?
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