Not every story has a religion angle, but it’s amazing how many do.
AARP Woodstock: Sex & spirituality
Oprah struggles with our 'spiritual' age?
If there is any person in American life who symbolizes the whole “spiritual” vs. “religious” storyline, that person would, for me, have to be Oprah Winfrey.
Missing the purpose of Pujols
FROM: Terry Mattingly, GetReligion.orgTO: Tim Keown, c/o ESPN MagazineRE: Potential answer to Pujols question
CNN: Don't reproduce or multiply
I know CNN fancies itself as a serious news source relative to other cablers, but imbalanced stories such as this one don’t exactly help them int he claim. In a puffy piece that ran on Earth Day, we got this advice on how to have a “green” love life:
Tebow wars, part 666
It would be an understatement of epic proportions to say that Baltimore is slightly obsessed with the Ravens, its NFL franchise in the tortured era after the sinful betrayal that cost the city the Colts.
Hey, good question!
For better or for worse, the Westboro Baptist church does make headlines and there is no end in sight. Thus, it’s incumbent upon folks in the press to ask some questions about how this congregation operates. (We’ve been doing that a lot more of than usual this week.)
Ghost? In hospital visitation rights story?
As is often the case, the mainstream press was handed a fascinating church-state separation case today and didn’t seem to realize it. Here’s the top of the A1 report in the Washington Post:
God in the gaps
I was reading this CBS/Associated Press story about a missing 11-year-old girl from central Florida being found alive, four days after she disappeared in swamplands near her home. And there was religion all over the place. People were talking about miracles. The guy who found her went to the same church as her parents. But we never learn what church it is. It’s just weird.
