I have reached three basic conclusions after reading the same front-page Washington Post story that Mollie responded to earlier today.
Modern loyalty oaths vs. all those ancient doctrines?
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Brangelina! Obama! God! Exclamation points!
I know, I know. I know that it’s absolutely crazy to look for hard, factual material in stories about celebrities — especially when it has anything to do with politics and religion. And in this case, we are talking about the brightest of all possible gossip stars.
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Covering warfare in a Byzantine maze -- literally
It goes without saying that I have received quite a bit of email from GetReligion readers, and others, wanting to know my take on last Friday’s resignation, and now the ongoing humiliation, of Metropolitan JONAH of the Orthodox Church in America. In a way, this news was rather shocking, yet not all that shocking because the bitter infighting between the OCA’s old guard and its idealistic young leader has been building for more than a year.
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Denver Post goes back to Orthodox future (sort of)
Every now and then, someone — sometimes on the right, sometimes on the left — decides to do a very free-church Protestant thing and start their own new and improved version of one of the ancient Christian churches. Sometimes, these innovators decide to submit themselves to the existing hierarchies, making the decision to officially join either the Catholic or Eastern Orthodox folds (Memory eternal, Father Peter Gillquist). But often, they do not.
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Hey Time: Does Justice Kennedy's faith matter?
After years and years of being a Time magazine subscriber, I chunked the last, last, last renewal notice into my office trash can this week.
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On blogging, religious liberty and 'bell-ringing homilies'
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Pod people: Why can't folks get Obama's faith?
For the life of me, I cannot understand why so many Americans struggle to understand that President Barack Obama is a perfectly ordinary liberal Protestant Christian.
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That strange AP story about a fired Slovak bishop
So what’s up with the Associated Press, all of a sudden? It used to be rare to read an AP report that totally needed an “analysis” label, but now it seems that these stories pop up all of the time.
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Kenya massacre: AP policy to bury lede?
Day after day, your GetReligionistas receive emails from readers that say something like this: “Please look at the following. Why do you think that (name of mainstream news organization) chose to (leave out or butcher a crucial fact) when covering this story? Is there something (some kind of politically correct policy) that requires them to do this?”
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