Get Religion is a national and global journalism site focusing on how the mainstream press covers religion news in politics, entertainment, business and sports.
Long-time GetReligion readers may remember that I have been, and remain, very confused about the meaning of the term “emerging church” and how it relates to that other confusing term “evangelical.” There was even a time, two years ago or thereabouts, when GetReligion.org was named one of the top weblogs linked to the “emerging church” movement. That struck me as most strange. It still does.
Hey, there you go. It has taken almost the whole primary season, but it now appears that the national press — or, at least, the Washington Post, which is a big deal in my zip code — has accepted that there are religious believers in the Democratic Party. Hurrah.
It really is impossible to stress too often that there isn’t one “Catholic vote” in American politics, right now. When people talk about Catholics being the ultimate “swing vote” factor — especially in tight races in the Midwest — they are actually talking about Catholics in the middle of a spectrum of doctrine and practice.
As I keep mentioning, no organization in Washington, D.C., is having a greater impact on serious coverage of religion news than our friends over at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. They keep turning out waves of information, including large chunks of the kind of media analysis work that is catnip to your GetReligionistas.
Why did Mildred Jeter Loving take the risky stand that she did, fighting the Commonwealth of Virginia’s law that said it was illegal for her, as an African-American woman, to marry the white man that she loved?
Hear me, people, I am very familiar with the competing truth claims connected with the great barbeque churches of the American Southeast.
Down in the ultra-conservative southwest corner of Louisiana, Democrats are celebrating the special election that will send State Rep. Donald J. Cazayoux Jr. to the U.S. Congress, yanking away a seat that had belonged to the GOP for 33 years.
Pick a survey, any survey, and it’s easy to see that the moral status of homosexual behavior remains one of the most divisive issues in American public life.
For the world’s 250 million or so Orthodox Christians, this is Bright Week. And if it is Bright Week, that means that last Sunday was Great and Holy Pascha. Which means that I was so busy this week, as my students wrapped up their work here at the Washington Journalism Center, that I didn’t offer a post on some of the Pascha coverage. I did, however, work in a Pascha column of my own for Scripps Howard.
