Another “faith-healing” tragedy. Another dead child. Another newspaper article.
Is Mrs. Eddy in the House? Senate?
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All praise to Oprah! In Dallas?
When it comes to God, Oprah Winfrey and Dallas — the city that many consider the evangelical capital of America — I am sure of two things.
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Picturing fetal remains
When late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was killed in May, the mainstream media covered the issue extensively. There were front-page stories for days and the major papers ran pieces discussing what the murder meant for the abortion rights movement, what types of pregnancies women end late, and whether the pro-life movement bore responsibility for the death.
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The great omission
I’m not sure GetReligion has ever highlighted a gap in religious coverage before. But I think I’ve find just the occasion. And my blind hope is that the reasoning behind this omission was a collective decision to ignore the problem — in this case, Jon Gosselin, the former co-star of “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ and a fallen hero for American evangelicals — and pray he will just go away.
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Mormon America
When I first saw the painting here by Jon McNaughton, I thought it was one of the best distillations of civil religion I’d seen. While most American civil religion focuses on generic Jewish and Christian themes, I wondered if this painting didn’t reference some particularly Mormon doctrine.
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Ordinary voices inside the 'Miracle'
Whenever I read in-depth coverage of disaster stories, I always remember something that the late Peter Jennings of ABC News once told me. For Jennings, disaster stories almost always served as perfect examples of how mainstream journalists fail to “get” the role that religion plays in ordinary life or ordinary people.
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Scientology vs. angry web trolls
There have been many stories about the ongoing battle between Scientology and a loose-knit, Internet-based gang of anti-Scientology anarchists known as Anonymous.
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Three in a casket
Anyone concerned about America’s fertility industry should ponder “21st Century Babies” being posted in installlments on the the New York Times website. Writer Stephanie Saul is doing an excellent job of revealing the moral dilemmas and, frankly, distress and suffering that may occur when potential parents decide to try in-vitro and intrauterine insemination.
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This made them search the bishop
You remember Bishop Raymond Lahey don’t you, the Catholic bishop who was caught in a Canadian airport security line with very naughty materials on his laptop computer?
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