The big political news in the Democratic Party is that Hillary continues to hang on to the loyalty of a majority of the party’s voters.
Hillary and her female issues
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Saints without halos
In a country where the only Mormon story reporters can conceive of involves Mitt Romney, Salt Lake Tribune religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack is a treat. It seems as if she’s one of the only reporters who doesn’t view Mormons as a monolithic group. This weekend she has a story on Mormons’ views about their own history.
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Dark night of a reporter's soul
The editors of the Los Angeles Times made an interesting decision when they decided to give page-one play to religion reporter William Lobdell’s soul-searching essay, “Religion beat became a test of faith — A reporter looks at how the stories he covered affected him and his spiritual journey.”
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Dungy: a story of consistent faith
How do you tell a story that’s essentially been told over and over again? That is the trouble for reporters who are assigned to write about the release of a book by Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy, who is as consistent as anyone when it comes to expressing the important things in his life.
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Influential? We GetReligionistas?
Jolly good (and other silly things that Americans think we are supposed to say to sound a wee bit British). Texans would say, “Thanks a bunch.”
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Don't discuss religion and politics
The Detroit Free Press had a rather bizarre article about the intersection of religious views and politics.
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Christopher Hitchens' infallible insults
There’s something about Christopher Hitchens that makes him a less grating personality than some of the other celebrity atheists of the moment.
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Harry Potter and the Tired Story Hooks
As for me and my blogmates, we will be avoiding the media hurricane of spoilers and debates surrounding all of those Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows scans, leaks, early mailings and embargo-busters. But I will scream “Boooooooooooo!” at the Baltimore Sun for publishing the last line of its early review. No, I will not provide a link.
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Missing subtlety in the culture wars
Sometimes being witty gets in the way of being thorough and nuanced. Dana Milbank, The Washington Post‘s ubiquitous page 2 columnist, wrote a lament Tuesday on what he described as the faded culture wars in the wake of Sen. David Vitter’s scandal and other supposedly connected events.
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