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Brangelina! Obama! God! Exclamation points!
I know, I know. I know that it’s absolutely crazy to look for hard, factual material in stories about celebrities — especially when it has anything to do with politics and religion. And in this case, we are talking about the brightest of all possible gossip stars.
Now Muslims can be hyphenated Americans, too!
Sometimes a word, phrase or sentence suddenly stands out. Perhaps I’ve seen this phrase before but it stood out. Here’s the top of an Associated Press story on a man charged with terrorism:
Hey Time: Does Justice Kennedy's faith matter?
After years and years of being a Time magazine subscriber, I chunked the last, last, last renewal notice into my office trash can this week.
Guess what: Mitt Romney is still Mormon
Let’s be honest: Mitt Romney isn’t exactly giving reporters many religion angles for reporters to pitch. He doesn’t talk about his faith much, so you won’t necessarily see how it explicitly plays out his policies. What’s a reporter to do? Write about his Mormonism, all the time, it seems.
On blogging, religious liberty and 'bell-ringing homilies'
Credulity, chutzpah and Catholic battles
In recent weeks we’ve looked at some of the stories the mainstream press has done, using the theme provided by a progressive, George Soros-funded public relations firm called Faith in Public Life. That theme, of course, is that Catholic bishops, by working to reclaim certain religious freedoms, are being “too political” and, worse.
Pod people: Why can't folks get Obama's faith?
For the life of me, I cannot understand why so many Americans struggle to understand that President Barack Obama is a perfectly ordinary liberal Protestant Christian.
Late nominee for worst story on Catholic battles
It’s not just the national media outlets that struggle to report on religious liberty issues without hackery. Some regional outlets share that struggle.
