One of my favorite Godbeat pros is Peter Smith of the Louisville Courier-Journal in Kentucky.
Church and the single life
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Splitting the Catholic labels really fine
It’s one thing to try to drag political labels over into religion coverage. That’s inevitable, I guess, in this highly politicized world in which we live today.
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Slow-pitch screamer on the Godbeat
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Same-sex marriage, celebration and "core values"
About a year ago, Gallup did a poll showing that Americans are completely ignorant of what percentage of the population identifies as homosexual. Mainstream studies indicate that the actual figures are somewhere in the low single digits, but Americans believed — on average — that 25 percent of the population is gay. This includes data showing that 35 percent of Americans think that more than 25 percent of the population is gay.
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That Gray Lady Catholic same-sex unions scoop 2.0
Let’s set the way-back machine for last summer, when the Womenpriests movement held one of its ordination rites in Baltimore. As one would expect, this event was glowingly covered — sort of — by The Baltimore Sun. I focused, in posts at the time, on this particular passage:
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AP editorializes on Girl Scouts
This just in: a lengthy Associated Press editorial focusing on the culture wars and the Girl Scouts of the USA.
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Billy Graham speaks out (says a good source)
Back in the days when I was a full-time religion reporter (soon after the cooling of the earth’s crust), the annual event that pulled the most religion writers into the same zip code was the annual slugfest between the left and right wings of the Southern Baptist Convention. This was especially true in the years before the conservatives firmly took control, back when one hold-up-your-red-cards vote to name a convention president could literally determine who appointed the trustees that ran the whole shooting match.
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Chen Guangcheng and his faithful supporters
Let’s face it, gentle readers, if I am going to be corrected — something that happens to all of us from time to time — it really helps to be corrected by one of the best in the business. I am referring to Pamela Constable of the foreign desk at The Washington Post.
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Chen Guangcheng, generic activist (corrected)
Anyone who has been following the news in recent days has almost certainly read numerous stories about the remarkable blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng and his dark-of-night escape from house arrest.
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