In a story about the right-to-life movement, reporter Nicholas Riccardi of the Los Angeles Times left readers with the impression that an individual human embryo is not, well, a human:
Missing a fact of life
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News flash: Obama is not a Muslim
What is the point of reporting on Web rumors that are plainly false and contribute little to the political discussion? Unfortunately it becomes necessary when the rumors and false reports become too much of the story.
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So is this what 'Islamist' means?
For several days, I have been trying to decide what to write about the teddy bear named “Mohammed” in the Sudan. I was trying hard to avoid it, since the GetReligionistas strive to write about how the press covers religion events, as opposed to commenting on the religion events themselves.
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Viewing Rudy's Catholicism through a glass darkly
Newsweek‘s cover story this week about the roots of Rudy Giuliani’s worldview was like a one-sided, incomplete version of 1985′s Heaven Help Us. Both depicted Catholic schools in the 1950s and ’60s in New York City as authoritarian and rigid. But in contrast to the movie, which pointed out that many priests were holy, compassionate, and down to earth, Newsweek stressed that parochial schools were a breeding ground for autocrats like “America’s Mayor”:
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They're not all bad
USA TODAY religion reporter Cathy Grossman had a great story the other day about the religion blogosphere headlined “Bloggers keep the faith, contentiously“:
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Time resolves theodicy
In a cover story for the Dec. 3 Time, Jeffrey Kluger quickly jumps into a collective voice, oddly crediting humanity as a whole for the most noble behavior while also blaming it for the worst horrors. As early as the second paragraph, he’s revealing a tone of scientism that weaves throughout the piece:
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A megachurch cost-benefit analysis
The business section of The New York Times had another story in its series on how religious institutions in America benefit from government accommodations.
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The plans of a vague yet active God
Unless you are a sports fan, you may not know that the Washington, D.C., area has headed into that strange zone in which people gather in the public square for prayer meetings that end with emotional renditions of “Hail to the Redskins.”
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Shameless plug for Godbeat friends
Kevin Eckstrom, the editor over at Religion News Service, just dropped us a line with the news that his wire service has updated and expanded its weblog.
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