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Once again (shock!), a movie marketed to religious conservatives is making a splash at the box office. This time it’s “October Baby,” about a woman who survives a late-term abortion.
First, a disclaimer: I expect that the following post will draw one or more comments that state the following theme, or variations on it: “The problem with this post is that this news story really isn’t an example of journalists failing to ‘get religion.’ This is just a messed up story. Period.”
Imagine a knock-down, drag-out fight between divorced parents over what age to baptize the children. I mean, really, who wants to read about that?
A reader submitted this New York Times profile of a street preacher named Leyland George. He has a boombox ministry. The profile is very brief and totally interesting, but it does raise some questions:
A horrible shooting happened yesterday at a small Christian vocational school in Oakland, California. A former student went on a shooting rampage, killing seven people and injuring three.
It’s always interesting to see what journalists zone in on when a new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life comes out.
Anyone who read GetReligion for more than a week or two knows that we are not big fans of religious labels.
Last week I mentioned that I’ve become mildly obsessed with the murder of Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi-American woman who was beaten so brutally at her home in El Cajon, California, that she later died.
