“Can one man build effective bridges between evangelical Christians and Chicago’s gay community?”
God & gays: BBC on the Marin Foundation
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Got news? Clock ticking louder in Iran
I’m still using Google News to search for mainstream news media reports on the fate of the Iranian pastor who faces the death penalty for being a Muslim apostate, even though he has never practice Islam.
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Questioning the presidential candidates
Let’s pretend for a minute that you get to spend 30 minutes with any presidential candidate. What questions would you ask? How would you shape those questions that makes sense for your readership?
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Missing religion for the trees
Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who became the first African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, died from cancer on Sunday. Here’s how the New York Times explained her significance in its obituary:
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Hate groups, lies and misinformation
About a month and a half ago, a little-known company called the Charity Give Back Group, or CGBG, started making headlines â and not the kind likely to win the company’s public-relations staff any bonuses.
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Got news? One doomed Iranian pastor (ho hum)
Once again, we find ourselves in the parallel universe of alternative, advocacy, alternative, “conservative news.”
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Survey: media biased, inaccurate and immoral
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press put out the results of their latest poll on public opinion of the media. And the results weren’t too good. But, on the other hand, they weren’t all bad. Here’s how Pew put it:
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Whispering with Rocco Palmo
We usually examine mainstream media reporting here, but we also have our eyes set on non-mainstream sites that cover religion. Earlier this month, tmatt highlighted a piece from the Baltimore Sun on Rocco Palmo who runs Whispers in the Loggia, which regularly scoops mainstream press.
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Did 'Irvine 11' practice 'civil disobedience'?
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