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Attention all religion reporters, copy-desk chiefs or interested laypeople who are having trouble keeping up with all of the moves on the chessboard of Anglicanism in America.
Daniel Burke, Peter Sachs and editor Kevin Eckstrom of Religion News Service put out an edgy pre-election feature package on Thursday focusing on one of this blog’s favorite topics — the religious left. The headline even referenced this blog (at least, I like to think so) by saying, “With the Help of a Dozen, Democrats Learn to ‘Get Religion.’”
We have had some lively discussion in the past week on my recent post raising questions about how mainstream reporters should handle, or try to avoid, questions about Mormon doctrines that strike many traditional Christians as wrong or, at the very least, worthy of debate. The spark for the discussions, of course, is a possible Mitt Romney bid for the White House. Click here for a recent Salt Lake Tribune piece linked to this.
I realize that I am tiptoeing around the edge of the blogosphere rumor mill, but I want to comment on the much-discussed Los Angeles Times piece by Johanna Neuman about those terrible Religious Right people seeking a “Pink Purge” of gay staff members in strategic Republican offices.
If you want to see an incredibly moving collection of Washington Post photographs of Amish believers mourning the deaths of the five girls lost in the Lancaster County school massacre, then click here.
First, let me praise the Baltimore Sun for realizing that there was a news story linked to the rites in which the veteran nurse and health-care administrator Irene Forbes Perkins became Sister Teresa Irene of the Heart of God.
I had a minor epiphany the other day when I realized that we are a few months away from the third birthday of this weblog.
As we slide closer and closer to election day, some political reporters are looking ahead to 2008 and the status of “value voters” and the evangelical vote.
