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A columnist at the Wall Street Journal used to regularly feature snippets from sports columnists who fancied themselves political pundits. You’d be expecting a nice piece on the last golf tournament but you’d instead get some tirade about the Iraq War or how awful President Bush is.
There was a massive “game-changing” development in stem cell research last month, but you probably didn’t hear about it.
You may have heard that we are convinced that many folks in the mainstream press just don’t “get religion.” Right?
Before we discuss a new story about problems at President Obama’s faith-based office, a bit of context.
If you haven’t heard yet, Glee tried to drum up a bit of controversy last week by focusing the episode on religion. The provocative show regularly takes stereotypes to the extreme, and last week’s show was no exception. Nicole Neroulias has a nice roundup–essentially, one of the main characters discovered that his burnt grilled-cheese sandwich looked like Jesus, inspiring the glee club to sing about faith.
As I was tying the knot last year, most of my peers were not, according to a new study that suggests the recession has accelerated a decline in the number of people getting married.
It’s the Holy Grail. It’s the holy writ. It’s as if the words “had appeared from somewhere on high.”
