The New York Times ran a very old story the other day, a story about a topic that has, in fact, been around for several decades.
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Numbers on nones
Earlier this week, Steve looked at media coverage of the American Religious Identification Survey and it’s finding that the percentage of Americans that claim no religious affiliation is on the rise. Commenter Martha directed readers over to the web site of Paul Zachary Myers. He’s the University of Minnesota biology professor who was last discussed here at GetReligion for media coverage he received after asking folks to send him consecrated Hosts in order to publicly desecrate them. And then he posted photos of the desecration.
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Got spin? Winds of change
Anyone who knows anything about the work of the conservative journalist and historian Marvin Olasky knows that he loves the old-fashioned advocacy journalism of America in the early 19th Century.
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'Lying' jokes about atheism
It’s been a big weekend for God-haunted movie openings, with the Coen brothers’ “A Serious Man” duking it out with British comedian Ricky Gervais’s “The Invention of Lying.”
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Sense those 'worship wars' vibes?
If you want to split an oldline Protestant church, you start a fight over sexuality. You can read that story in major newspapers year after year from coast to coast, world without end. Amen.
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Abortion: new data, new controversy
Is the U.S. public moving towards a more conservative, or perhaps a less generally permissive, attitude towards legalized abortion?
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Another salvo in the Mommy Wars
I’m fairly new to motherhood, with a 2-year-old and an infant. I recently wrote my take on the Mommy Wars — that term used to describe everything from whether women should work outside the home while raising young children to whether to use cloth or disposable diapers — over at Christianity Today. So I was intrigued by this front-page Washington Post story that looks at a new Census report dealing with stay-at-home moms.
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LAT: Middle America is everyone else
I’ve been way too nice to the folks at the Los Angeles Times lately. I mean, I joined GetReligion with complaints about how these weren’t the days of Russ Chandler, or even Bill Lobdell, who was also great. But with the recent work of news columnist Steve Lopez and new blood Robert Faturechi, I’ve had nothing but nice things to say.
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What made them search a bishop?
I have two questions that I need to ask about the following CBC report, which I find stunning. One question now and one question later on in the post.
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