Of course, Barack Obama was the top Religion Newsmaker of 2008.
Religion plus politics equals 2008
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A fine line between hipster and Christian
I’m always amazed when I read a piece of journalism that takes what I call the “anthropological approach” to some weird religious group. It seems particularly odd when the group in question is Christians in America. Usually it’s evangelical Christians who get this special treatment.
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The worship life of presidents
My Google News religion search included an interesting headline for a Los Angeles Times story: “Obama, family spend Christmas at vacation home, forgo church services.” But when I linked on the story, the actual headline was “Obama visits Hawaiian base.”
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Putting the Mass in Christmas
During the past 25 years or so, I have written more than my share of mainstream news stories and columns about religious seasons.
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NYTimes glimpses the doctrinal lines
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Beneath the big picture
What happens if you vehemently disagree with your denomination and decide to stay — at least for now?
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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Should journalists clean up the language of the people they’re quoting? No, I don’t mean “clean up” like Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich might need his language cleaned up.
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God of the blue zip codes
What we have here is one of those newspaper stories that didn’t have to spotlight the religion ghost, but it could have. Maybe it should have.
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Gap in the Mall stories
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