Baptist Press ran an intriguing story this week. It was one of those laugh-to-keep-from-crying stories from the sort-of-secular public square.
Enemies of Tiny Tim?
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Connect the Rupert Murdoch dots
Early this month, I put up a major religion-news post, while offering no commentary about it whatsoever.
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A priest tells his own hideous story
My local newspaper, The Indianapolis Star, rightly leads this morning’s newspaper with the banner headline “EX-PRIEST ADMITS ABUSING BOYS.” The article describes a situation that is all too familiar to newspaper reporters covering local Catholic communities.
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Context is everything
One of the sad consequences of journalists’ low reputation is that sources can claim mishandling even when it might not be true. Yesterday, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s comments about the Mormon religion in this weekend’s Sunday New York Times Magazine 8,100-word profile were revealed. He claimed he was taken out of context. Yesterday, reader Hans noted:
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Repeat after Meacham
Newsweek editor Jon Meacham’s cover story on what the magazine calls “A New American Holy War” reads less like a news report than a sometimes exasperated prep-school instructor’s departmental memo about a pair of bickering students named Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. A quick aside about Newsweek‘s headline: Calling a lively religious debate in primary season “A New American Holy War” is like referring to door-to-door evangelism — whether by Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses or Southern Baptists — as “Spiritual Waterboarding.”
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How do evangelicals view Mormons?
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Oh, that's what Christmas is about?
Someone should inform American journalists that there is something of a shift going on across the pond regarding the Christmas wars. Thanks to Jerry for sending us the following story from Reuters that should be put on the desks of The Washington Post‘s features department editors for reasons that shall be discussed later in this post.
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Add the ex-Pentecostal piece to the puzzle
News accounts about the shooter who killed four people at a Christian missionary center and church in Colorado have been quoting anti-Christian rants he posted on the Web. Using the name “nghtmrchld26,” Murray spilled out increasingly disturbing diatribes on a forum where former Pentecostals discuss any number of issues.
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To protect and serve God
Reporters spent Monday covering much-needed ground in the tragic killings at the Youth With a Mission campus and New Life Church in Colorado. It turns out that there are even more religious angles. I’ve been really impressed with all of the Colorado papers and television stations, and there’s way too much to highlight here, but let’s look at the two newest angles. The first is information on what may have motivated the gunman, Matthew Murray, as described by the local ABC affiliate:
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