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After a few of my friends decided against circumcising their newborn sons, I began paying attention to the issue. Every year I happen to be walking around the Capitol during the annual anti-circumcision rally held there. The circumcision rate in the U.S. has been on the decline. And there are all those hipster authors loudly proclaiming against the ancient rite. And the dramatic Andrew Sullivan, of course.
The Major League Baseball playoffs are upon us, and Kevin Baxter of the Los Angeles Times has done a great job of reminding us that football isn’t the only sport in which religion can be prevalent.
A Washington Post story has been bothering me for more than a week and I have had trouble figuring out why.
The Amish are not known as easy interviews. In fact, many do not like to talk to journalists at all and, when they talk, they often speak German.
I approached Newsweek‘s cover story on Mitt Romney with dread. Would this be still another media demand that Romney deliver a J.F.K. speech that promises to build an unscalable wall between his faith and his public service?
Herb Brasher sent us a note about a recent story in The State (Columbia, S.C.) about Barack Obama’s visit to two local churches. The article does a quality job raising the racial issues at play — one of the churches is predominantly black and the other predominantly white — but the religious issues are unfortunately nearly absent from the pieces.
Did it seem like there were no religion news stories last week? Maybe it was because all the religion reporters and writers were partying at the Alamo at the Religion Newswriters Association’s annual convention. Gary Stern blogged about it last week and even posted a video blog upon his return. Unfortunately the report included no funny stories or gossip about other religion beat professionals.
Yet another high-publicity autobiography is out, and once again the media are giving short shrift to religious aspects in the author’s life.
GetReligion apologizes for being so late on the story about Buddhist monks leading peaceful protests for democracy in Burma and being shut down by the military junta. Religion and its relation to government is at the core of this story, and that raised an interesting questions in opinion pages around the country.
