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So the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh is voting on Saturday about whether to secede from the Episcopal Church. Ann Rodgers, the ace religion reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has been all over this story for years. Whether she’s covering Episcopal or Presbyterian battles, she writes interesting stories that are chock full of context and give plenty of room for all sides to weigh in.
A denominational mea culpa to a dead scientist and the controversial resignation of a live one have occasioned both indignation and mirth among the British press.
I’m very excited about becoming a contributor to GetReligion. It will be a real kick to do what I have often done as a reader — ponder the lens through which a particular article was written.
The East Valley Tribune, the daily newspaper that covers the Pheonix, Arizona’s East Valley, has a very interesting profile about a month ago about a former reporter for the National Enquirer who was told often to be careful about using the word “God” in his articles and to “steer clear of ‘any way endorsing religion or faith.’” The Tribune rightly put this information in the lead of the profile of this ex-tabloid reporter Chris Benguhe but does little to follow up for why this is the case in tabloid journalism land.
The other day, while I was meeting with a bunch of Godbeat pros at the Religion Newswriters Association (here and here for pieces of that), it hit me (ouch) that GetReligion is creeping up on the fifth anniversary of the day when Doug LeBlanc clicked “publish” and put the original test site online.
Just as Young Man Pulliam said last week, Deborah Howell devoted her most recent ombudsman column to the controversy over Pat Oliphant’s anti-Pentecostal cartoon that was published on WashingtonPost.com. Howell had noted in an earlier column that readers were right to complain over the cartoon. This weekend, she ran a lengthier piece about political cartooning in general.
Let’s just get right to it. This Los Angeles Times piece about the religious views of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is pretty much worthless.
Another controversial preacher is making news. His name is Thomas Muthee, a Kenyan pastor who has preached at Gov. Sarah Palin’s former Assembly of God church in Wasilla, AK and claims to have cast out demons. Both Newsweek‘s On Faith blog and The Christian Science Monitor ran stories about Muthee, and the two were entirely different in subject matter if not quality.
