Raise your hand if you think that religious conservatives play a major role in the power structure of the Republican Party today.
Is Rush the new Pat Robertson?
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My Saudi Valentine
I wondered whether we’d end up looking at any Valentine’s Day stories here at GetReligion. While rooted in Christian history, the day is not featured on the actual liturgical calendar. But the most interesting mention of Valentine’s Day came in a story about how the king of Saudi Arabia shook up the religious establishment there.
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A decade of self-care?
BBC News has missed a good opportunity to explain a Welsh politician’s career change in sufficient detail. The second paragraph in the BBC’s story about Assembly Member Lorraine Barrett says that “she now wants to spend the next decade ‘on herself.’”
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Limiting speech in the U.K.
News coverage in this country tends to focus almost exclusively on American happenings. A review of the Religion Newswriters Association’s top 10 stories from 2008 confirms this.
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Nod over coffee
In the past few weeks, three different readers of GetReligion have shown an exemplary commitment to discussing ideas. They have asked GetReligion’s editors to pass along their email addresses to other readers, so they may continue debating Proposition 8, missionary work and other volatile topics.
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Monkey business
There’s some really interesting conversation going on in Italy and Great Britain on the topic of God, evolution, and the late Charles Darwin.
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The Fairness Doctrine and religious broadcasters
Perhaps this reveals too much about my sailor-like vocabulary, but you have to like a religion story that begins with the F-word. The Tennessean religion reporter Bob Smietana began his story on the National Religious Broadcasters Convention this week as follows:
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A faith dispute goes public
The Akron Beacon Journal published quite a story Sunday that touches on issues with which many families struggle, but so rarely do they spill out into the public square. In this case, a family’s personal controversy over the child’s decision to join a non-denominational Christian group known as the Xenos Christian Fellowship created a story that the newspaper could not ignore.
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Shameless plug for serious friend
If this weblog has a short list of very close friends, Rod “Crunchy Cons” Dreher would have to be near the top of the list. I feel no shame pointing people toward his work, every now and then.
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