About the time that I was finishing up my studies at Baylor University, a remarkable young football player arrived on the campus named Mike Singletary.
NFL gets religion (maybe not)
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News story or spoof? You decide
I have to admit that there is no reason for the following information to be posted here at GetReligion.org, other than my simple amazement that no one — Frank Rich of The New York Times leaps to mind — seems to have written about this product yet in the mainstream press.
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Closet Mormon in Idaho? No
Over the past few days, anyone interested in American politics has read more than a few stories about U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, a Republican stalwart from Idaho, and his adventures in a men’s bathroom in Minnesota. It will be some time before people in this town are able to talk about a politician taking a unique “stance” on a tricky issue without thinking about him.
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CT asks readers about Vick's 'God card'
Here is your opportunity to cast your vote on the state of Michael Vick’s soul or, at the very least, the quality of his press-conference performance the other day.
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Michael Vick, sinner (to be continued)
You knew that the religion ghost in the Michael Vick story would wake up. I mean, last week I put it this way in a post responding to a Michael Wilbon column in The Washington Post that veered into faith language:
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E.P. Hemingway is in the house
It took several days to get the basic facts together with a photograph, but we can pass along the happy news that the Divine Ms. M.Z. Hemingway (and hubby) are the proud parents of a baby Lutheran.
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What kind of 'evangelist' is Kennedy?
I am tempted to think that the word “evangelical” and several words connected to it have become too vague to be of any use to mainstream reporters. I know that’s impossible. There are simply too many people who use “evangelical” as a noun or an adjective these days.
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Compassionate criticism
I wrote a post here the other day about the resignation of Karl “Boy Genius” Rove in which I noted that the mainstream coverage of his exit did little to dig into his relationship with conservative Christians. This gap was really strange if you stopped and thought about it, in light of that voting bloc’s strategic role in the Bush era.
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Union of sanctuary and steak
Let’s start with the classic Martin Marty quote, which is always good when talking about religion and the news. Marty has been known to say that, for many people, the word “ecumenical” seems to boil down to someone saying, “I don’t believe very much and you don’t believe very much, so we must have a lot in common.”
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