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As the popular vote in California relating to how marriage is defined continues to meet with disapproval from Hollywood and others, the Associated Press has an article about where to place the blame for how the vote went down.
This is one of those weeks when one of my more personal posts here at GetReligion evolved into a rare first-person column for the Scripps Howard News Service.
As you would expect, the Anglican wars receive quite a bit of attention in the major newspapers today with the announcement by conservatives that they are forming the Anglican Church in North America, as opposed to the U.S. Episcopal Church.
In the aftermath of the election, there’s been a lot of coverage of Obama’s compelling Internet strategy, and how he might leverage online links with his millions of supporters while in the White House.
Some local ads here in Washington by a national humanist group have been causing quite a stir. Which is precisely what advocacy groups — and businesses, for that matter — want when launching an ad campaign. So kudos to them for getting some solid earned media with that ad buy.
The astounding historical and religious significance of last week’s attack is just now being revealed. Some of Tmatt’s questions from yesterday on why these terrorists targeted Jews have been answered, but much remains to be determined and many tough questions must be answered by journalists.
Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. once mentioned how difficult he found it to discuss his Catholic faith in the social circles in which he moved. I had trouble imagining Buckley, who was so clear about his beliefs in God and Man at Yale and in the fortnightly National Review, having difficulty ever expressing his convictions, regardless of his dinner companions.
You would think that, since my alma mater is the University of Colorado, I would know a lot about Rastafarianism. But I don’t. And mainstream media articles such as the ones below, dealing with a lawsuit brought by a Rastafarian against his employer, aren’t likely to cure that problem.
