You’ll never guess what uncontroversial Christian doctrine this Republican candidate and/or office-holder believes!
Political reporters learn about St. Augustine. Chaos ensues.
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Why did a conservative Catholic Raven skip White House visit? (updated)
Let’s say that there is a Republican president in office right now, one with ties to a somewhat doctrinaire form of Christianity.
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Washington Post Style section manages to print an interesting EWTN story
Whenever your GetReligionistas pick on the Style gods at The Washington Post — primarily with our pronouncements that alternative points of view are good things in features about controversial issues (perfect example here) — there is always someone out there in comment-pages land who tells us to lighten up and get real.
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Dueling Christian coverage, or Ira Glass vs. National Journal
Above is a nice little snippet of an Ira Glass interview. Interview of Ira Glass, I should say. The popular host of public radio’s This American Life reflects on why the show does so much good coverage of Christians. It’s because the media do such a bad job of covering them otherwise, he says. He says the Christians he knows and works with — including the “fundamentalists” — are nothing like how Christians are portrayed in the media.
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The press has found the next enemy -- adoptive families
When my husband and I began the adoption process, we had no idea how controversial it would become. There are many stories being written these days harshly critiquing Christians who adopt children.
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Evangelicalism is political, but not a political movement
How many political issues do American evangelicals care about? Apparently, just two: abortion and same-sex marriage. At least that is the impression you’d get if you read about evangelicals in the mainstream press.
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Pod people: Concerning the IRS and the God squads
It’s a basic fact of life in American politics that nothing fires up the non-profit sector on the political right like the election of a strong president whose voter base is on the religious, cultural and political left.
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Media coverage of religious profiling
So tmatt has us all doing this experiment of reading a daily paper. I haven’t subscribed to a newspaper in a very long time. I used to get both the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. Fifteen years and 2,000 miles later, I get the Washington Post. The thing that has struck me the most about this go around is how very, very, very thin the papers are. When did that happen? Some days’ editions are barely there!
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Pope Francis' affinity for liberation theology -- wait, what?
For this post, we’re not going to critique past the first sentence of this New York Times story on Pope Francis headlined “Francisâ Humility and Emphasis on the Poor Strike a New Tone at the Vatican.” To be fair, that headline might have caused half of our Roman Catholic readers to spasm in response. But we’re not touching it. We’re going to look at just the first line. Here:
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