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Last week, I was pretty hard on a New York Times report about the latest round of quote, “ethnic,” unquote violence in Nigeria. This story was very light on the details when it came to describing the role that religion plays in a nation that is, literally, divided by faith.
Here is a question for GetReligion readers and other consumers of mainstream news. Does the name “James Pouillon” ring any bells for you?
Your GetReligionistas have a long, long, long, oh so long history of struggling with the question of whether mainstream reporters should continue covering the staged-for-media hatefests that seem to be the only reason for the existence of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan.
Sometimes, it’s amazing to see how far people will go to downplay the obvious role that religion plays in many parts of the world, for better and for worse.
Back in my Denver days, I covered a remarkable meeting about intermarriage between Jews and Christians, in this case Catholics. In the summary remarks, one of the rabbis made a comment that has always stuck with me.
Some GetReligion readers may have heard that there is this little battle going on here in Washington, D.C., about health-care reform.
Surely, I was one of the last pop-culture-friendly religion writers on planet earth to get around to writing about Avatar.
It’s official. Catholicism has little or nothing to do with the giant, heartrending story here inside the other Beltway — the closing of 13 of 64 schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.
