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NPR and CCM: Don't ask, don't tell

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For GetReligion readers who happen to follow the niche music market known as Contemporary Christian Music (CCM), there really isn’t much new information to share about the life and career of the lesbian singer-songwriter Jennifer Knapp. Her decision to publicly out herself cost her lots of fans and made her some new fans.


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More breaking news from 1537!

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Yesterday morning in Bible class, my pastor actually made us read Joshua Green’s piece on Michele Bachmann’s former church body and the shocking revelation that the Lutheran church body is … Lutheran. We read every word and folks young and old were snickering at some of the more egregious errors and incendiary language.


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Catholics and foster kids in Illinois

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I complained last week — surprise, surprise — about an NPR report on Illinois’ new civil unions law. Alas, this post is going to start in mid-sentence and not make a whole lot of sense if you missed that original post. So read it already.


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All hail the victors?

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Someone alerted me to this discussion from last weekend’s Reliable Sources show hosted by Howard Kurtz on CNN. I’ve never really watched the program but it’s a media program dealing with media coverage. So meta. This past week’s segment featured a conservative radio host named Dennis Prager and a liberal blog founder named John Aravosis.


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