The first word that a journalist needs to think of when writing about former Sen. Rick Santorum is “conservative” and the second is “Catholic.”
(Wink) Gingrich and religious right (wink)
Unless I am reading the tea leaves wrong, we have not seen the end of the stories probing whether the once Honorable Newt Gingrich has adequately repented for his moral failures as a husband. The theme that keeps driving this subject into the headlines is, of course, his ongoing attempts to court the votes of evangelicals and other moral conservatives (with traditional Catholics being a crucial piece of that puzzle).
Textbook example of balanced reporting
Too often when those two forces collide, a train wreck demanding GetReligion attention of the negative kind occurs (examples here, here and here).
Colbert's chaplain on humor vs. mockery
A headline like “Pope charged for not wearing seat belt,” almost feels like a piece from The Onion, but sometimes truth is funnier than fiction.
Interracial couples and Baptist 'hierarchy'
Over at Yahoo! News â one of the most visited sites in the online universe â the third and fourth most popular items at this moment relate to a tiny Kentucky church voting to ban interracial couples from joining the flock.
All the cool kids in the NYTs
Another day, another article about a religious group trying to be hip. It’s the third article in about a month that The New York Times has noted hipster and religion trends. Again, the premise of its latest piece is that religion is not hip so it’s noteworthy when a group finds a way to pull it off.
On the campaign trail: Bad Dad?
Stereotypes and backwoods religion
At first glance, I had high hopes for a CNN story out today with the headline “Pastor fights HIV stigma in Southern town.”
