I’ve been under the weather for a few days but didn’t want to overlook some news coverage from the end of last week.
The undivisive issue of abortion
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Obama: Get (civil) religion
Here’s a term that you should get used to hearing once again, during the era of President Barack Obama — “civil religion.”
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How not to substantiate a quote
CNN is featuring a story headlined “Haggard faces new sex allegations.” While Haggard’s former church disclosed a pattern of immoral behavior at the time it let Haggard go, the specifics are somewhat new.
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What was he thinking?
What was Pope Benedict’s intent when he revoked the excommunications of four bishops (one of whom is a Holocaust-denier) from a movement that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church twenty years ago?
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Healing: The church-state line? (updated)
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Click. Click. Connect. Cancel?
As regular readers know, your GetReligionistas have had our issues with the postmodern Newsweek magazine ever since we opened this website.
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Losing my religion
A move to create publicly funded schools that are secular in name, but offer education in Islamic, Jewish and Catholic culture raises complicated questions — ones that don’t seem to have gotten an overwhelming amount of attention in the mainstream media.
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Ted Haggard's story metastasizes
Newsweek recently published a one-page story about Ted Haggard that showed a remarkable sympathy for the former president of the National Association of Evangelicals. The story, reported by Tony Dokoupil and drawing heavily from the new HBO documentary The Trials of Ted Haggard, was especially uncritical about Haggard’s claim of being mistreated by New Life Church, the Colorado Springs church he founded and built into an evangelical powerhouse:
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No more walks to church, big guy
By this time, the professionals in the mainstream press are starting to settle down, which means that the unrepentant shivers that ran up their legs, into their spins and into the depths of their souls are starting to fade just a bit. Soon, most scribes will get down to the hard business of criticizing the new administration — from the cultural left.
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