The amount of breast cancer awareness promotion reached to a new level this year in my life.
Breast cancer awareness fluff
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"Evangelical voters" march on in Iowa
During the past decade of so, pollsters have begun paying attention to an interesting phenomenon. A growing percentage of young Protestants who would ordinarily be called “evangelicals” have started running away from that word.
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Pod people: sharia comes to Wall Street?
For this week’s Crossroads podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discussed media coverage of the spirituality of Wall Street protestors. We’ve frequently noted the hostile posture that many news outlets have toward those religious activists who have conservative positions but in many ways the treatment received by religious activists who have liberal positions is even worse. That’s because they’re largely ignored. This was definitely a problem with early coverage, although it has improved, as we discussed in a recent post.
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The death penalty and vague religion
In its most prime real estate â Column One â the Los Angeles Times recently carried the story of an inmate finding forgiveness on death row.
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Editing down the Catholic "core" (updated)
Anyone who is familiar with the Catechism of the Catholic Church knows that this volume takes the words “Thou shalt not kill” very, very seriously. Thus, it is also crystal clear in its affirmation of the early church’s rejection of abortion.
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Step One: Quote Opposing Sides
Last night, I was reading a couple of stories that suffered from the same problem. Don’t you hate it when that happens?
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That growing (gay) UCC Nashville flock
Since day one, a major theme here at GetReligion has been the need to portray the specific beliefs of specific believers whenever possible, instead of taking the easy road and settling for simplistic labels.
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Finding religion at Occupy Wall Street
Back when the Occupy Wall street protests began, I complained about the lack of coverage in general and the lack of coverage of religion angles in particular. When the coverage improved, I made sure to note that as well. It’s my observation that the best reporting comes from ideological outfits, particularly (as you might suspect) on the more progressive side of things. ReligionDispatches is a great resource, for instance.
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Mollie and the spin doctors
No, the title of this post does not refer to a now forgotten second tier ’80s band. Mollie and the Spin Doctors will not join Souxsie and the Banshees, Hootie and the Blowfish, Adam and the Ants, and Echo and the Bunnymen in the remainder aisle at Wal-Mart. I chose this title to tell a cautionary tale about religious journalism concerning one of my colleagues at GetReligion, Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, and the Communications Office at the Episcopal Church.
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