That’s what I wanted to know after reading Ian Sample’s article in last week’s Guardian.
Feeling less pain?
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The president and the Supreme Conscience
Three major American newspapers published articles in the last two days on the significance of the president’s power to appoint Supreme Court justices and how that significance is impacting, or not impacting, the current presidential election. The underlying issue these articles attempt to highlight is the power the Supreme Court has in shaping the lives of Americans and how people often forget that when they consider for whom they will vote.
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Praying about the economy
Many GetReligion readers have been anxious for more religion stories that deal with the economic crisis.
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Mortgaging souls
Time‘s headline of “Maybe We Should Blame God for the Subprime Mess” does an injustice to David Van Biema’s brief and informative update on prosperity theology’s march through the contemporary church.
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Is yoga a religious discipline?
Of the many mailing lists I’m on, the Hindu American Foundation‘s is one of the more interesting. An advocacy group, they send out regular emails with news stories relating to Hinduism.
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Wars over sex, scripture and what? (updated)
Something very interesting is going on in the mainstream media’s coverage of the decision by the Diocese of Pittsburgh to leave the U.S. Episcopal church and align with conservative Anglicans in the Province of the Southern Cone in South America.
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Missing words make a difference
Earlier this week, a regional church court heard a case in which a Presbyterian pastor from Pittsburgh was accused of performing a same-sex wedding ceremony in violation of the constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
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Lost in the liner notes
Too often, we aren’t sure. Do we have a religious story with a political dimension — or a story about politics that has a religious angle? When journalists cover a story about the “culture wars,” the religious convictions that may fuel someone’s position on an issue sometimes end up buried in the end quotes.
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An Episcopal timeline victory
Readers who follow the Anglican wars know that one of the official GetReligion hobby horses is that this ecclesiastical drama is unfolding on several levels at the same time.
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