So what do we really know, at this point, about Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo and his attempted attack on Ft. Hood?
Another loner, following his own faith?
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Pod people: Breivik a liberal Lutheran terrorist?
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Seeing the ghosts in a prison hospice
Every now and then, someone in our comments pages accuses your GetReligionistas of arguing that the way to improve religion-news coverage in the mainstream press is to have more religious believers invade America’s newsrooms. After all, “get religion” is a Bible Belt phrase for someone having a conversion experience of some kind.
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What he said (about Norway)
At this point, I think most journalists have reached the point that they know that Anders Behring Breivik (a) has self-identified as a “Christian,” (b) yet he also made it clear that he is not a Christian believer, in terms of beliefs and practice and (c) that it is bizarre to call him a “fundamentalist,” in any historic sense of the word.
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Daring to cover the Womenpriests camp
Please grant me a moment to help readers flash back to a few recent GetReligion posts focusing on mainstream news media coverage of the Womenpriests movement. It focused on an event in Baltimore, a public rite in which four women were hailed as Roman Catholic priests.
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From Arne Fjeldstad: Belief? Ideology? Faith?
EDITOR’S NOTE: GetReligion readers may not know the byline of Arne H. Fjeldstad, unless they have clicked through to the Media Project website on our left sidebar.
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Helpful talk on that 'cult' word
Presidential primary season is approaching, of course, which means that it’s time for reporters to start dancing around the Mormon issues that will be swirling around Mitt Romney.
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Waiting for facts in Norway bloodshed (updated)
The story of the day, of course, is the massacre in Norway. Thus, let’s start with a note from a GetReligion reader in Norway, which was attached to a URL for the main story in the New York Times:
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God in the 'Sullivan Ballou letter' (updated)
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