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Jim Wallis, Sojourners founder and author of God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, has a provocative piece in Time this week pronouncing the end of the religious right.
We look at media coverage of Mitt Romney so much because, unlike most other candidates, the media are obsessed with his religion. My wonderful Mormon in-laws are following Romney, and the number one thing they can’t stand is the focus on Romney’s religion instead of his politics.
The answer can be found here at ABC News’ Brian Ross and & the Investigative Team site, along with seven other questions that will test your knowledge of Islam.
The two controversial bloggers hired by the presidential campaign of John Edwards have quit after people complained that they had written some things that were anti-Catholic. No, they weren’t fired. They went on their own accord:
National Public Radio’s Morning Edition is in the midst of a five-part series on Shiism this week. It’s called “The Partisans of Ali: A History of Shia Faith and Politics” and is well worth listening to or reading online.
Here we go again. It’s time to take another look at mainstream coverage of the White House campaign of Mitt Romney.
Newsweek‘s weekly BeliefWatch section is great. It’s a guaranteed two-column slot in a national magazine that will focus on some unique issue relating the religion. Usually it’s a story that has received little or no coverage elsewhere, and for that the contributors to the section should be commended.
Yesterday I noted media coverage of the anti-religious rhetoric of two bloggers hired by John Edwards for his presidential campaign. The extreme anti-religious rhetoric was highlighted by political conservatives who are Christian.
