The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life’s “Religion News on the Web” page is one of the places I go to peruse religion news.
Ready! Set! Be bored by Illinois' same-sex marriage debate!
Please respect our Commenting Policy
A U.S. Army (trend) of one (or maybe two)
Please respect our Commenting Policy
The New York Times finally makes some changes on the fetus front
Oh to have been a fly on the fall during any editing discussions at The New York Times national desk during the time between the newspaper of record’s early report on the verdict in the Dr. Kermit Gosnell case and the final version that is currently online.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Who's worthy of more coverage: Todd Akin or Kermit Gosnell?
When Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin made a comment about women being raped last year, the New York Times responded with, according to a search engine count, about 250 stories in under three months. A sample of the 19 (!) headlines from just the first two days*:
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Should journalists ask pro-choice activists some Kermit Gosnell questions?
The New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a Mother’s Day interview with, who else, the head of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood does a few things that people either love or hate, but none so much as aborting more than 300,000 unborn children each year.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
A ghost in here? IRS targeting Jews too?
Fear not religion news reporters, you too can jump into one of the hottest news stories on the wires. Buried deep within an article reporting on the Internal Revenue Services’ harassment of conservative advocacy groups lurks  a religious liberty news story. That may not sound too exciting but you could rephrase the story pitch this way for your editor: Has the IRS created a religious test in order to define what it means to be a loyal Jew?
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Pod people: Proselytization, blasphemy and Kermit Gosnell
On this week’s Crossroads podcast with host Todd Wilken, we talked media coverage of the Pentagon and proselytization, religious freedom and the Benghazi whistleblowers and the trial of Kermit Gosnell. So yeah, we packed a lot in there.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Asking the Boy Scout questions that matter the most
If you know anything about the politics of gay rights, you know that there is absolutely nothing that the Boy Scouts of American can do right now that will not lead to major divisions in their organization. The key force that will cause a future split is, of course, the deep divide among mainstream religious groups on the moral status of homosexual behavior.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Let's revisit Benghazi and the First Amendment
If you didn’t get a chance to watch the Benghazi whistleblowers testify before Congress yesterday, you should. Part of what made it so interesting was how dramatically their testimony contradicted the official line received and published by the media in previous months. It was also just a good lesson in how bureaucracy works and how competing interests can impede the search for truth or justice.
Please respect our Commenting Policy