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This is one of those days when it’s easy to see why The Politico keeps making mainstream media people — a key cog in Democratic Party conversations — so nervous here in Washington, D.C. The new kids inside the Beltway continue to produce stories that stray way outside the borders of the establishment talking points.
The reaction continues to roll in as the mainstream press surfs through the results of the new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), the one that points to the rising wave of the post-denominational age in American religion.
I don’t know about you, but when I read about the collapse of a pyramid scheme that takes down wealthy, well-educated investors and nonprofits, I shake my head and wonder how such smart people made such (in hindsight) dumb choices.
A few days ago, reader Derek pointed out the complete lack of mainstream media coverage of a rather shocking bill that was introduced in the Connecticut State Legislature.
Since the day this blog opened for business, your GetReligionistas been saying the same thing over and over about the structure of modern American religion.
It’s early but this Washington Post headline about President Barack Obama’s changes to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research would have to be up for one of the worst of the year:
With President Barack Obama’s announcement that he will change President Bush’s policy on taxpayer funding of stem cell research that destroys embryos, expect quite a bit of media coverage.
Benjamin A. Plotinsky, managing editor of City Journal, has written a 4,000-word essay on Christian themes in science fiction. An editor at a respected journal gives serious attention to a theme otherwise restricted to fan sites — normally this would be cause enough for rejoicing among the editors of GetReligion.
