So is he Muslim or not? (UPDATED)

Last week, I woke up to news reports that someone was taken into custody near the Pentagon after a suspicious device was found in his car. Three major thoroughfares were shut down as police investigated. The initial reports included plenty of errors. For instance, no suspicious device was found in a car! Reports that others fled the scene also washed out. The device that “looks like a bomb”? Who knows. The “controlled explosion” they were going to do with the car? It didn’t happen.


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A Mormon ticket

I love it when reporters look for religion angles in political stories, I really do. Sometimes, though, a reporter tries too hard to see a faith angle. Consider Joshua Green’s post for The Atlantic on Jon Huntsman’s new website, www.Jon2012.com, and whether it has any biblical implications, referring to the New Testament passage John 20:12.


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Hellish 'Arab' violence in Sudan (again)

Anyone who knows anything about the decades of bloody conflict in Sudan knows that it is impossible to take religion out of the mix — especially the conflicts between Muslims in the north and the Christians and animists of South Sudan.


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Fundamentalists and other S.O.B.s

Benoid Denizet-Lewis had yet another a fascinating story in the New York Times this past weekend. This time it was about Michael Glatze, a former gay rights activist who has since renounced his past. The two used to be friends and colleagues at XY, a San-Francisco-based national magazine for young gay men.


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Tweaking the religion beat (2011)

The other day, I posted a few comments about the lengthy Deseret News feature about the fact that many mainstream journalists are still struggling to grasp that religion plays a major role in news at the local, regional, national and global levels. You could see how that kind of a story might interest your GetReligionistas.


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