Read the lede to this Minneapolis Star-Tribune story, and tell me if it doesn’t make your head spin:
Did not paper report what Piper did not say?
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Pod people: GetReligion news alert
RELIGIONNEWSVILLE, Cyberspace (GR) â In a podcast now available online, GetReligion contributor Bobby “Bible Belt” Ross admits dropping the ball in his recent critique of media coverage of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.
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Another unbalanced Sun report on Lori? Check
Up front, I sort of feel the need to apologize for posting on what is essentially the same topic that the Divine Mrs. M.Z. Hemingway covered earlier today.
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That Anglican timeline thing, again (with apologies)
I have been on the road for a week or more and, when I returned home, there was a huge stack of Baltimore Sun newspapers for me to triage. One of the first GetReligion-esque stories that I ran into concerned a local news event that the Sun has been ignoring for months (see previous GetReligion coverage here).
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The voiceless disappearing flock, again
Three months ago, I threw a fit about a St. Paul Pioneer Press report that focused on a black pastor who lost three-fourths of his congregation after endorsing same-sex marriage.
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Gay church marriages in Denmark
The Telegraph reports that the Danish parliament has passed a law requiring all churches in the Nordic country to perform gay marriages. Clergy may opt not to perform the ceremonies, but church authorities must find a substitute minister to solemnize the marriage.
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Nun wars: Is the pope Catholic?
Truth be told, for several days now I have been trying to find ways to avoid writing about the whole nun-wars story.
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Ignoring the big Mormon question at gay pride parade
There was a gay pride march the other day in Utah and The Salt Lake City Tribune, in it’s basic report about the event, certainly didn’t shy away from publishing a provocative lede:
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Pod People: Toward a more consistent scare-quote policy
In this week’s “Crossroads” podcast, host Todd Wilken and I looked over a couple of stories I analyzed this week dealing with religion in the public square.
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