If the leaders of the United States don’t understand the basic differences between Shiites and Sunnis, then what should one expect from the average American?
Yankees and Red Sox: Which league are they in?
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More on the Alpha and Omega of All Things Factual
No one is surprised when reporters are found to have certain biases. We all have personal opinions. Some of us handle our biases better than others, of course. Here at GetReligion, we tend to worry about the lack of diversity in newsroom biases. So many reporters have similar educational and economic backgrounds and similar views on the contentious issues of the day. I’m not breaking any news here.
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We're back (cross your fingers)
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The Amish, through a long lens
If you want to see an incredibly moving collection of Washington Post photographs of Amish believers mourning the deaths of the five girls lost in the Lancaster County school massacre, then click here.
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Scrambling to cover another book ...
The political firestorm over former White House official David Kuo’s Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction is as much about religion as it is about government bureaucracy and election-oriented politics. Is it a seminal work exposing the Bush administration as a bunch of frauds and political opportunists? No, journalists have already told that story, but it could prove to be a tipping point in prompting some evangelical leaders to reconsider their GOP allegiance.
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Hey Sun: Why did she become a nun?
First, let me praise the Baltimore Sun for realizing that there was a news story linked to the rites in which the veteran nurse and health-care administrator Irene Forbes Perkins became Sister Teresa Irene of the Heart of God.
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To boldly go, where GetReligion has not gone ...
I had a minor epiphany the other day when I realized that we are a few months away from the third birthday of this weblog.
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All we need is love
This, from Tim Townsend at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Go Cardinals!), would have to be my favorite lead in a religion story this weekend:
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Covering those tricky finances
The final two articles in the New York Times series on “how American religious organizations benefit from an increasingly accommodating government” deal with money. Lots of money. Reporters are known for being those students who failed miserably at math and thus decided to go into a career that supposedly would keep them far far away from numbers.
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