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At first glance, the one constituency you would think former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney had locked up would be the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormons. Romney is of course a practicing Mormon.
When I was on the religion beat, one of the questions that leaders in a wide variety of religious groups used to ask me went something like this: “Why do the (insert colorful word here) Episcopalians get so much coverage in the mainstream media?”
As part of The Atlanticfocuses on faith and religion. The feature has been going on for 13 issues with various archival experts in honor of the magazine’s 150th anniversary. The full texts of some articles are available here.
We are now in day two of the post-Dar es Salaam world and the focus is moving — as it should in U.S. newspapers — back to the local and national angles of this global Anglican crisis.
A long, long time ago, I remember a comment that a city-desk editor made when reporters started using the really early laptop computers (photo) to cover live news events. Everyone was excited because this was going to streamline the shipping of stories back to the newsroom, making it possible for reporters to write closer to deadline on breaking stories.
I always get a kick out of the way my friends and colleagues celebrate Mardi Gras with a fervor not seen since before the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus. But mere hours later the liturgical calendar is forgotten. These devout observers of Shrove Tuesday can be heard telling the Christians they have “dirt on your forehead.”
Jim Wallis, Sojourners founder and author of God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, has a provocative piece in Time this week pronouncing the end of the religious right.
It’s hard to know where to start with all of the coverage of the Anglican primates story, now that the late-late-night negotiations are over and the official statements are out.
