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As Mitt Romney inches closer to the GOP nomination, we are nearing the point at which the mainstream press — especially Comedy Central — begins to realize that it’s time to cover a different Mormon story.
I confess: That’s generally my reaction when I read news stories (and the mainstream media seem to publish them with increasing frequency) about atheists trying to win nonbelievers to their cause.
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.
I’m going to break some news to you. It’s very difficult and you’ve probably never heard about it. Certainly the Washington Post hasn’t.
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).
