Earlier this week, Mollie suggested that it’s a good time to cover religious liberty questions, as we’ve seen continual reports of violence in Egypt, Iraq and other countries.
Religion and sexual violence
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Meditation: Moral equivalency in Egypt (updated)
Once again, we head back into my stash of GetReligion guilt, that hefty folder of stories that I know I need to address but I am not sure what I need to say. In this case, I am talking about one of the early “what is this all about” stories linked to the rising violence in Egypt.
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Pod people: Baby names and political obsessions
In the latest Crossroads podcast I talk about how the media invented a papal war on celebrity names out of whole cloth. That led into a broader discussion of how the media lost a bit of credibility this week with some poor decisions about how to cover the tragedy in Arizona.
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Rave review for a Raven
Greetings, GetReligion readers. Here’s your third-string quarterback with a post about a Baltimore Sun story on the Ravens’ Todd Heap, one of four Mormons on the Baltimore squad.
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Ghost in that Dallas club for men?
Every now and then, elite organizations such as the New York Times run strange, colorful stories about those strange people who live out there in flyover country, by which I mean the Bible Belt and other locations between the Hollywood sign and the Hudson River.
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More imaginary papal wars
I wrote yesterday about Pope Benedict XVI’s speech to the diplomatic corps, in which he called for a focus on religious liberty. That didn’t get much news coverage, but guess what is! That’s right, remarks that Pope Benedict XVI didn’t even make. And such is the state of affairs in reporting on the pontiff.
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When religious icons die
I have a bit of an embarrassing confession to make: Before she died Sunday, I’d never heard the name Debbie Friedman.
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Religious liberty threats rise?
Christians are by no means the only ones targeted by Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Agence France-Presse informs readers that an imam and his son were recently convicted under the law:
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Now, this is why CNN has a religion blog!
Don’t you just love it when Congress holds hearings on a complex topic — think the state of family farming — and the powers that be call a famous actress as a witness because, in a movie, she played a woman whose farm is in trouble?
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