Terry Mattingly

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So who nixed the Seattle menorah?

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One of the most interesting stories in the 2006 Christmas Wars broke the other day in the Pacific Northwest, where the staff at the Port of Seattle hauled off all the Holiday Trees because of a conflict with a rabbi from the Chabad-Lubavitch organization about a long-delayed request to erect a giant Hanukkah menorah.


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A not-so-warm welcome for reporters

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If you are a steady consumer of Anglican Civil War coverage, you probably turned to this morning’s Washington, D.C., newspapers with a sense of anticipation — knowing that members in some of America’s most prosperous and historic Episcopal parishes started voting Sunday (emphasis on the word “started”) on proposals to exit the Diocese of Virginia and the progressive national church.


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Dick Cheney's religious doubters

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In case you have been on another planet for the past few days, 37-year-old Mary Cheney, the high-profile gay daughter of the Vice President Dick Cheney, is pregnant. The mainstream press accounts all note that she is expecting this child “with” Mary Poe, her partner of 15 years, but journalists are allowing the couple a rare zone of privacy and are not exploring the precise meaning of the word “with.”


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More Passion Playbook pages

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In the past year or so, there has been all kinds of mainstream coverage — like this and especially this — of Hollywood professionals trying to find out how, in the post-Passion-earthquake world, to market mainstream movies to the so-called “Christian market.” This story has actually been out there for quite some time, but it still seems to be hot.


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