The timing couldn’t have been better — or worse, depending on your perspective.
When two things collide
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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Terry and I had trouble agreeing on the method of counting religious leaders in “The Time 100: The Most Influential People in the World.” Terry pointed me toward his recent quip about last year’s list:
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Clergy spanking update in Fort Worth
As a rule, the GetReligionistas do not post news updates simply for the sake of letting readers know that something has happened. This is not a religion-news site, it’s a site about how mainstream newsrooms cover religion news.
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Brave new world
In the blur of the first weeks I was pregnant, my doctor told me to get an ultrasound. I complied and when my husband and I showed up for the test, I asked lots of questions about what we were there for.
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Who is synonymous with discontent?
One of the hardest things to teach journalism students, I think, is to recognize the dangers present in what I called “buried pronouns.”
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Key story behind B16's Brazil visit
There seem to be two dominant story lines coming out of the Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Brazil that began Wednesday. One is that the Pope is facing the lingering spectre of his longtime nemesis — Marxist-inspired social liberation within the Catholic Church — and the other is the Protestant challenge from Pentecostals.
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Tackling a difficult story
Sometimes reporters should be commended for nothing more than tackling tough stories. The Washington Post‘s Pamela Constable looked at the vitally important but explosive issue of wife abuse in the Muslim community.
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Mama tried
One of the more nagging questions about the mass killings at Virginia Tech is how the parents of killer Seung-Hui Cho related to him. Their earlier statement to the public clearly expressed agony about their son’s rampage. The Washington Post‘s front-page story from Sunday fills in more blanks, especially regarding the killer’s mother, Hyang In Cho.
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Hispanic Catholic renewal 101
It’s interesting, whenever the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life releases a new study, to watch the ripples from that data spread out into the work of mainstream newsrooms that take religion news seriously.
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