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Talk about a byline and a dateline that raised some eyebrows! The online folks at New York Magazine asked the obvious question in this headline: “Why Is Times Executive Editor Bill Keller in Iran?”
First things first: His name is not St. George the Dragon Slayer. Most of the time, you will hear him called the Great Martyr St. George the Trophy-bearer, or a variation on that title. The key is that he died as a witness to his faith.
You don’t have to read this blog very long to realize that your GetReligionistas are not fond of religious labels — especially inaccurate uses of words such as “fundamentalist” and the lazy use of vague, content-free words such as “moderate.”
Why right now? Why are these isolated extremists pulling their triggers? What are the factors that are pushing the “kill” button at this moment in time?
As any reporter knows, it’s hard to write a story about the beliefs of an individual, let alone the motives of a killer, if you are not able to talk to the person.
Here is another one of those strange little — repeat “little” — church-state stories that a few readers continue to ask about, via personal emails.
As several readers have written to let us know, this USA Today mini-package seemed like a great idea. I mean, GetReligion readers ought to want to dig into a feature that runs under the headline: “A window into the faith of religion reporters.”
