It’s a sad thing when you hit middle age and your mind starts to go.
Online confession, round two
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A ghost in a murder story
It is, sadly, the kind of story that you see in the newspaper regularly if you live in a big city, especially one in the urban Northeast.
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Will Romney upset ... the Mormons?
The Los Angeles Times recently ran a commentary piece that perfectly captured in a single word the reason that Mitt Romney will — sadly — continue to face questions about his Mormon faith.
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A bodyguard during the liturgy?
I am back at my desk in Washington, D.C., but my mind is still in Istanbul (and, as you would expect, my confused body does not know exactly where it is).
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Hollywood idealism, in brief
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The elephant in the room in Istanbul
There is no way to come to Turkey to talk about issues of journalism and religious freedom without realizing that, the whole time you are here, there is a very large elephant in the room, a subject that is hard to talk about openly.
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More on that Media Matters study
Every now and then, a topic covered here at GetReligion kind of hangs around in my mind and turns into one of my weekly “On Religion” columns for the Scripps Howard News Service. That’s what happened this week.
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The view from behind the veil
I spent most of today walking around in Istanbul, or riding a bus from one part of the city to another. It is impossible to do this without thinking about Islam, secularism, modernity and the paradoxes of this tense nation.
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Turks get American religion -- our football
Anyone who knows anything about life in the USA knows that one of our strongest forms of civic religion is Christian football.
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