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Getting religion: So many God-beat stories, so little time

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Yesterday was one of those days when it was frustrating to be a God-beat blogger. You may have noticed that the U.S. Supreme Court punted on the “Under God” pledge case. I’m sure this was a great relief on the Democratic side of the church aisle and a disappointment to the Republicans. A strong, clear decision would have been great for fundraising on both sides.


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The national funeral in less pastoral hands

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On Friday the Rt. Rev. John Bryson Chane welcomed retired Senator John Danforth as celebrant and homilist during the national funeral for Ronald Reagan. In this interview with Nan Cobbey of Episcopal Life, Chane discussed the elaborate advance preparations for the funeral. Some of Chane’s fellow bishops, who have shown certain imperious tendencies in recent months, would have behaved more like this.


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Prayer & jargon

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Oliver Pritchett of the Telegraph knocks it out of the park in satirizing Christian Aid’s Pocket Prayers for Peace and Justice. The one example Pritchett cites from Pocket Prayers is quite enough: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death” becomes “Even if a full-scale violent confrontation breaks out I will not be afraid, Lord.”


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And this just in: GetReligion has a worldview

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For years, professional religion reporters have debated what to say when a source or newsmaker turns and asks: “Hey, reporter, what in the world do you believe?” A decade or so ago, the Religion Newswriters Association even held a workshop on the topic, allowing Godbeat veterans to talk shop on this prickly subject.


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