Last night I followed a random tweet that linked to this report from Nina Shea at National Review‘s Corner:
Romney's Mormonism: Problem for voters?
Katy Perry's Big Fat Hindu Divorce?
I know that the shelf life of the average Hollywood marriage is around five months or so. But I was still quite saddened by the news that Russell Brand had filed to divorce Katy Perry shortly after their first anniversary.
Your obligatory post about labels in Iowa
As you would imagine, one of the first things I did after returning home last night was cue up the Iowa coverage. For the most part, I surfed back and forth between CNN and Fox most of the night.
After 1929 rape, mom and daughter reunite
One of my family members devours biographies, a genre not known for tantalizing your average middle-aged woman. When I asked her why she loves them, she insists that the stories are better than fiction, that because they are true, they are much more interesting. A recent news story out of California fits that description pretty well.
Open thread on 2011 religion news
How long have I been away from my desk, out on the nation’s highways visiting various encampments of family members?
Iowa's 'uneducated Jesus freaks'
My dad used to tell me a story about a man getting off of a train and asking the station manager for information about the town he’d just arrived in.
New York Times puff piece on Sudan
I have mixed emotions about focusing the critical spotlight on this New York Times story about the plight of Christians in the Sudan. I am pleased that a story that speaks to the state sponsored persecution of Christians made it into the paper’s pages, yet I would have wished they had fact checked their story.
Getting the Anglican timeline right (hurrah)
Back at a high point of the Anglican wars, your GetReligionistas could have written a post a week noting how mainstream journalists were chopping multiple decades off the timeline of the conflicts in the Episcopal Church.
