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Tebow at home (in church) in the Big Apple?

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You know that you have moved into true Bible Belt territory when the locals start asking you — literally while the moving van is in your drive way — blunt questions that sound something like this: “Hey, do you folks know where you’re gonna go church yet?”


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Lolo Jones can't be sexy, Christian and a hurdler

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Some readers sent in a recent piece from Salon, which (for those who stopped reading it back in the 1990s) bills itself as “the leading progressive news site, combining award-winning commentary and reporting on the most important issues of the day.” But we don’t really look at “progressive” or “conservative” sites for how well they report the news because we’re more interested in mainstream publications. If they want to publish a piece about Gabby Douglas and how it would be easier to like her “if she were not so, so, so into Jesus,” that’s their business.


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Reporters: Don't crush Gabby Douglas's interesting story

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Sports reporters write stories very quickly, feeding editors literally on deadline. My sports reporter husband jokes that political reporters stress out maybe once a year during election nights when nearly every weekend has at least two election-like nights for sports. In many ways, they have been doing what Twitter users are now figuring out, how to report reactions professionally as you experience them before writing the big picture piece later.


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London 2012 fetes British ink, film and (gasp!) hymnody

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Folks, I have committed a serious sin that I hate to spot among other reporters. When searching for obvious religion, I overlooked the subtle spots.


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Does Ramadan only affect Muslim athletes?

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Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, began Thursday evening and lasts for a month. During the month, participating Muslims refrain from eating or drinking during daylight hours. Muslims believe Ramadan was the month during which the first verses of the Koran were revealed to the Islamic prophet Mohammed. The month is based on the Islamic lunar calendar and moves back about 11 days each year.


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