When it comes to covering the Youth With A Mission shootings, journalists in the mainstream media are still searching for a template to use.
Mapping a gunman's path
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How do evangelicals view Mormons?
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Oh, that's what Christmas is about?
Someone should inform American journalists that there is something of a shift going on across the pond regarding the Christmas wars. Thanks to Jerry for sending us the following story from Reuters that should be put on the desks of The Washington Post‘s features department editors for reasons that shall be discussed later in this post.
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Handling a hot potato
Okay, so I hate delving into more political coverage, but recent stories about Mike Huckabee are just begging for criticism. To lay my cards on the table, I’m opposed to most all government encroachment and as such find Huckabee to be my worst nightmare. I know many readers here love Huckabee and others love every other candidate along the spectrum. More power to you all. However, we should remember to keep discussion focused on media coverage of this religion story rather than the political issues themselves.
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Add the ex-Pentecostal piece to the puzzle
News accounts about the shooter who killed four people at a Christian missionary center and church in Colorado have been quoting anti-Christian rants he posted on the Web. Using the name “nghtmrchld26,” Murray spilled out increasingly disturbing diatribes on a forum where former Pentecostals discuss any number of issues.
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This. Happened. In. Canada.
When American legal scholars talk about defining limits on religious liberty, it doesn’t take long to map out the extreme borders.
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Church hook in that Sean Taylor story
We rarely, rarely cover the work of religious publications here — because that is not what GetReligion.org is about.
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To protect and serve God
Reporters spent Monday covering much-needed ground in the tragic killings at the Youth With a Mission campus and New Life Church in Colorado. It turns out that there are even more religious angles. I’ve been really impressed with all of the Colorado papers and television stations, and there’s way too much to highlight here, but let’s look at the two newest angles. The first is information on what may have motivated the gunman, Matthew Murray, as described by the local ABC affiliate:
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About the Post's bizarre Obama story
I have mixed feelings about ombudsmen, but the latest effort by The Washington Post‘s Deborah Howell makes me think again about their usefulness. Howell dealt with the story the Post did a couple of weeks ago about the baseless rumors surrounding the Barack Obama presidential campaign that he is a closet Muslim. Even Post opinion cartoonist Tom Toles had a useful opinion on the piece.
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