Wait a minute. Have the malls already been turned into little fake islands of New England? Is it already that time of year?
Here ye go again
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Los Angeles Times gets religious liberty
It is rare that you get to watch a great newspaper — in this case the Los Angeles Times — wake up and realize it has published two stories in the same issue that are, in fact, directly related. In this case we are dealing with religion stories, so let me happily help GetReligion readers connect the dots.
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That Jimmy Carter flashback
I have had a number of readers ask me for my reaction to the recent remarks by former President Jimmy Carter in which he addressed both his party’s dogmatic stance in favor of abortion and its growing estrangement from traditional religious believers.
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Was Swoopes born a lesbian?
OK, I have held off writing about this for a week because I wanted to see how the daily sports press and the weekly magazines handled a tricky style question at the heart of this story.
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From Rome: More trial balloons
As I said not that long ago, we remain at the trial balloon stage in the ongoing drama of the Vatican and gay seminarians. Over and over we have seen MSM reports that Rome was poised to release the long-awaited Congregation for Catholic Education document that is supposed to “ban” — or maybe not, or maybe just a little bit — the admission of homosexuals from seminaries.
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Connecting the Army recruiting dots
I’m curious. I wonder if the trend covered in this story — “Youths in Rural U.S. Are Drawn To Military” — has anything to do with two other stories that I have tried to follow closely for this blog. I refer to the growing tensions among military chaplains and the growing tensions about religious expression at military academies.
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How to avoid reporting the obvious
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A note to GetReligion newcomers
I think GR contributors are using the word “ghost” way too often … despite the fact that it is Halloween season
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Ghosts in the fires of Paris
As my colleagues here at GetReligion would tell you, about once a week or so I sent around a frustrated note on top of a news story or two linked to the conflict between the extremists that many now call Islamists and other religious believers, from Jews to Christians, from secular Muslims to Western Muslims.
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