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The Washington Post‘s Alec MacGillis wants you to know that Mormons support the Mitt Romney for President campaign. Mormons support him so much that they give him money — lots of money — and that may turn some non-Mormons off to Romney.
I was thinking I might note how we’ve seen relatively few examples of that mainstream media Holy Week tradition of showcasing stories designed to question the work of Christ. But it’s only Thursday.
This is the time of year when religion-beat specialists scramble to try to cover a liturgical parade of events in both Judaism and in all forms of Christianity. In the past few decades, one of the standard stories around this time of year has focused on the historical links between Passover and Holy Week, between the Passover meal and Holy Communion.
Religion is a hard subject to pin down, so we shouldn’t be surprised to find a feature titled “On Easter, Symbolism and the Exuberance of Spring” in the Dining & Wine section of The New York Times.
At GetReligion we’ve chuckled readily when reporters have trouble remembering that “the Rev.” should not precede the name of Focus on the Family’s James Dobson. Newsweek and The Washington Post have struggled with this, bless their hearts.
Did you hear that Barack Obama looks a lot like Jesus in a sculpture at the The Art Institute of Chicago? Oh wait, he is supposed to be Jesus in the sculpture. Quick, someone inform Slate’s Timothy Noah, who has been dutifully chronicling the “Obama Messiah Watch.”
It has taken me several days to try to figure out why Los Angeles Times reporter Erika Hayasaki’s Column One feature story, “He died in vast isolation,” has been haunting me.
Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune‘s wonderful and longtime religion reporter, has had a rather busy week.
Tensions in the growing Muslim population within Great Britain do not get much coverage in the United States, largely because the issues are different on the west side of the pond. Sometimes it’s hard as an American to understand just how much Islam is changing and challenging Britain, but this New York Times piece by Jane Perlez does a great job summarizing the issues.
