The Amish are not known as easy interviews. In fact, many do not like to talk to journalists at all and, when they talk, they often speak German.
Letters from the grieving Amish
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Breaking: Mitt Romney is a Mormon
I approached Newsweek‘s cover story on Mitt Romney with dread. Would this be still another media demand that Romney deliver a J.F.K. speech that promises to build an unscalable wall between his faith and his public service?
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A church visit without any religion news
Herb Brasher sent us a note about a recent story in The State (Columbia, S.C.) about Barack Obama’s visit to two local churches. The article does a quality job raising the racial issues at play — one of the churches is predominantly black and the other predominantly white — but the religious issues are unfortunately nearly absent from the pieces.
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Giving religion news a closer look
Did it seem like there were no religion news stories last week? Maybe it was because all the religion reporters and writers were partying at the Alamo at the Religion Newswriters Association’s annual convention. Gary Stern blogged about it last week and even posted a video blog upon his return. Unfortunately the report included no funny stories or gossip about other religion beat professionals.
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Seamless words from Baltimore archbishop
The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore has a new leader and, as you would expect, the Baltimore Sun put the installation rites on page one. And, as you would expect, the story was a mix of pageantry and pieces of the sermon by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien that had political implications.
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Clarence Thomas with no soul
Yet another high-publicity autobiography is out, and once again the media are giving short shrift to religious aspects in the author’s life.
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Dobson threatens to elect Hillary
After watching a round of CNN over lunch, I think we can now proclaim this the political story of the day. You know that this development is causing a round of celebrations in the Hillary Clinton headquarters, since third-party bids are what opens the door for candidates with consistent high, high negative numbers in polls.
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The monks' revolution
GetReligion apologizes for being so late on the story about Buddhist monks leading peaceful protests for democracy in Burma and being shut down by the military junta. Religion and its relation to government is at the core of this story, and that raised an interesting questions in opinion pages around the country.
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You say you want a revolution
Normally we look at mainstream media, but I came across an essay in my church body’s monthly newspaper that is worth sharing. In The Reporter, veteran foreign correspondent and former religion editor at UPI (and my friend and fellow Lutheran) Uwe Siemon-Netto looks at how the mainstream media treat Christians and, conversely, atheists. He notes Christopher Hitchens’ fawning reception by CNN’s Lou Dobbs, among other examples.
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