Well, this is certainly a pushy opening for a story on a hot-button issue, care of Reuters reporter Ed Stoddard in Dallas:
Texans love God and killing killers
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Has the GOP's evangelical candidate emerged?
Strumming his guitar to a second-place finish in the silly Iowa straw poll this past weekend, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has alerted political reporters that evangelicals aren’t to be discounted as a voting bloc in the 2008 presidential election. Reporters covering the GOP side of the campaign were all set to discount evangelicals.
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Billy Graham's White House chaplaincy
It’s not front-page news that Billy Graham has enjoyed varying degrees of access to every president since Harry Truman. The latest issue of Time, which publishes excerpts from the new book The Preacher and the Presidents by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, reports some interesting new details:
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So is prayer a right or not?
For years now, I have been arguing that when people in public education face a revolt by conservative Christians or Orthodox Jews, they should play the following mind game.
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Trying to probe the senseless
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Holding Gerson to a higher standard
Everyone back in Washington is getting all excited about The Atlantic‘s article on President Bush’s former speechwriter Mike Gerson by a former colleague of Gerson’s, Matthew Scully. Scully’s main point is that Gerson sucked up to reporters, promoted himself over his colleagues and took credit for work that wasn’t solely his.
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Green evangelicals on page one (surprise)
At some point, the whole “moderate evangelicals are starting to care about Creation” story is going to get old, but it sure does not seem that this will happen anytime soon.
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Read with a Spanish accent: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
Bruce Tomaso at the Dallas Morning News‘ fine religion blog highlights a horrible Reuters story that Christianity Today‘s Ted Olsen found.
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Message to Mitt: No altar calls
I think the day has passed, here inside the Beltway, when powerful mainstream, hard-news reporters can actually sit in the Oval Office and informally offer advice to a president about this or that speech or this or that public policy (think JFK and the likes of a young Ben Bradley).
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