A billboard campaign orchestrated by a right-to-die group remains alive and well, but it already has gone straight to heaven.
Totally secular right to die
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Burying the Wright stuff?
Remember the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright? It’s been a few years since the White House campaign, so let’s review. Wright was President Obama’s pastor who made controversial remarks in his sermons, such as suggesting the U.S. should be damned. Obama gave a speech on race and religion and eventually broke ties with Wright during the 2008 campaign.
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The fundamentalists are everywhere
There’s a certain irony in the relationship between atheism and Christianity and this ABC News story highlights that. It’s about some subset of atheists adopting a debaptism rite modeled on the Christian baptism rite.
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NPR on China's Christian awakening
NPR yesterday began a multi-part series on the rise of religious belief in China’s spiritual vacuum. And it’s not off to a good start.
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About those flying monkeys
It’s such a simple thing, I guess, but I love the way Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Ann Rodgers previews upcoming religious events. It doesn’t matter what my level of interest is going into one of her stories, I always come away something to think about.
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Death by symbolic head scarf
There is no question that the following story from Canada.com and the Calgary Herald is, when push comes to shove, a crime story. Yet the lede signals that something else is going on, something that readers have to wait a long, long time to find out when reading this report.
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There's a pony in here somewhere
When I saw that the New York Times magazine had an 8,000(!) word piece on the “The New Abortion Providers,” my heart sank a bit. This is an otherwise interesting publication that doesn’t just seem obsessed with churning out pro-abortion propaganda, it has a history of wildly botching stories on the topic and refusing to correct them.
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What Berger said
This isn’t exactly hard news, but I thought that GetReligion readers would want to know about (I mean, readers other than those who have sent us notes requesting a post on the topic).
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Arguments that shed light
I’m not entirely certain how significant the new Vatican norms are for the treatment of crimes considered to be “most serious” within the Church. But I thought it worth looking at just one example of how the church and the secular media exist in two distinct universes.
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