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I confess that I am fascinated with several journalistic mysteries related to the case of the would-be Manhattan bomber, Jose Pimentel, a.k.a. Muhammad Yusuf, a.k.a. Osama Hussein.
If I have learned anything in my two decades as a professor in Christian higher education, it is this. There is no one approach to “Christian” higher education.
Now that we’ve hit two months of Occupy Wall Street protests, let’s look at a few recent stories with religion angles.
As far as I can tell, just by reading the story that ran in the newspaper that lands in my front yard, the nonprofit Emmaus Center that works with the homeless in nearby Glen Burnie is a small, but vigorous ministry that does wonderful work.
The Washington Post has a religion story that many readers have submitted for comment. The headline could not be more promising:
It’s nice to see Rod Dreher blogging away again this fall, especially since he kind of wrote a GetReligion post for us. In a recent post, he argued that the New York Times Magazine is obsessed with sex and sexuality, especially from a progressive/liberation angle. As he points out, here are a few of the sex-related stories theyâve done this year (with links to some GetReligion responses).
As strange as it sounds, I think it’s time to offer praise to the editors at The New York Times for showing admirable restraint in their early coverage of Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez of Idaho Falls.
On this week’s Crossroads, host Todd Wilken and I talked about media coverage of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting.
Some of the topics we cover that generate the most interest are the ones that mix religion, politics and culture. You know, abortion, stem cell research, gay rights, religious liberty. These also tend to be the topics that trouble some journalists the most.
