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It didn’t take long, after the Rt. Rev. Douglas Leblanc and I started GetReligion.org back in 2004, for people to start suggesting that this weblog needed to hook up with a larger website or online institution that was about religion or journalism or, hopefully, both.
Earlier this month we looked at an incident involving a reporter covering the Chick-Fil-A protest for his paper in Florida. Reporter Mark Krzos had a public Facebook profile. On it, he shared his liberal views, affinity for the Democratic Party and its candidates, and his strong dislike of Chick-Fil-A. He appeared to go so far as to support blocking Chick-Fil-A outlets from being permitted to exist in Boston, for instance.
Letâs face it, GetReligion readers, when I see a Washington Post headline that says something like âPaul Ryan: Midwesterner, Catholic, intellectual,â I just canât help myself. I grab a computer printout of the text, get out my yellow highlighter pen and get to work.
The Feast of the Assumption of Mary â August 15 â will be marked by the Catholic Church in France by the revival of prayers for the eldest daughter of the Church (France).
I know that I have mentioned, in the past, that my family was part of a predominately Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian parish in South Florida during the dark weeks right after 9/11. I remember, for example, that one young Orthodox boy was attacked in a public-school playground because he was an Arab â with his gold baptismal cross hanging around his neck.
For the hometown newspaper of Chick-fil-A, those seems like reasonable questions to ask about the chicken sandwich chainâs president and chief operating officer.
One of the most famous passages in all of Christian Scriptures is the beginning to the Gospel of John. It is beautifully written and fundamental to our understanding of Jesus Christ:
On this week’s Crossroads, host Todd Wilken and I spoke about media coverage of the Chick-Fil-A protests, the misplaced outrage at CNN when the channel was blamed for something an online commenter had written about the shooting at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the Alawite/Alevi confusion displayed by the New York Times.
A few years ago, about 2,500 of my closest friends and I packed into a megachurch auditorium in the Oklahoma City area to hear Randy Travis sing.
