Journalism

Southern Baptists on the downhill statistical slide?

This just in from The Associated Press: Southern Baptists are having a tough time.


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Tintin and the Catholic Charismatics

The story so far … Intrepid reporter Tintin, accompanied by his faithful fox terrier Snowy, has travel to Brazil to report on the preparations for the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day celebrations in July. Upon his arrival Tintin finds the natives have abandoned their base communities and liberation theology for Catholic Pentecostalism. Who is behind this tragedy? Soviets, American gangsters, Jews? Can our hero rescue the church from the clutches of charismatics in Brazil?


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Political reporters learn about St. Augustine. Chaos ensues.

You’ll never guess what uncontroversial Christian doctrine this Republican candidate and/or office-holder believes!


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Pod people: 'Mass exodus' from the Boy Scouts?

Pod people: 'Mass exodus' from the Boy Scouts?

One of the wonderful things about writing is the ability to type something, decide it’s not precisely exactly what you wanted to say, delete it and start over.


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Why did a conservative Catholic Raven skip White House visit? (updated)

Let’s say that there is a Republican president in office right now, one with ties to a somewhat doctrinaire form of Christianity.


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Washington Post Style section manages to print an interesting EWTN story

Whenever your GetReligionistas pick on the Style gods at The Washington Post — primarily with our pronouncements that alternative points of view are good things in features about controversial issues (perfect example here) — there is always someone out there in comment-pages land who tells us to lighten up and get real.


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Seven questions about Boy Scout gay policy coverage

Headlines over the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to allow openly gay members are still flying fast and furious.


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