Things that go together in Texas: Chicken-fried steak and gravy. Cowboy hats and boots. Church and state … oh, wait.
Separation of church and Lone Star State
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(Cue: audible sigh) Hunting for 'Catholic voters,' again
The myth of the “Catholic voter” lives on and on and for perfectly logical reasons, even though use of this term adds next to nothing of our understanding of public life in America today.
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Ghosts appear when IKEA disappears women
What’s the world coming from if you can’t cater to Saudia Arabian consumers by airbrushing all women out of pictures in your catalog? Swedish furniture giant IKEA did that and they’re hearing it from angry women and human rights activists. Women: can’t have them in your fancy catalog, can’t airbrush them out of existence.
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A religiously fashionista story
I love a good fashion story, especially one that taps into religion behind the inspiration for the different styles.
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A few, but not enough, tough questions for Cordileone
I have been out of the country for several days, which means it’s time to back up a bit and look at a Los Angeles Times story that inspired varying opinions from GetReligion readers. This story was especially interesting, since it is rare to get email from conservative Catholics who think that a major newspaper may have gone a bit too easy on a conservative bishop.
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Mitt Romney's surprising next church
Last week we looked at the story about Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid saying Mitt Romney was a bad Mormon. A reporter asked me if Mormons think Harry Reid is a bad Mormon. I’m not Mormon but I asked a few friends who are and even the ones who really loathe his politics were dismissive of the question. One told me that she’d worshiped in Reid’s ward and that nobody seemed to make a big deal about it.
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Tennessee trend piece hits the mark
One of the mantras of GetReligion is that journalists should give people of faith the opportunity to explain â in their own words â what they believe.
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Digging deeper than Tebow as 'nice guy'
Another National Football League weekend, another chance to put Tim Tebow’s name into digital print — making glad the hearts of Patheos.com leaders who live day after day in the world of Google and other search engines.
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Crazy Charlie: His cartoons are insane
In this weekâs podcast Issues Etc. host Todd Wilkin and I discussed two of my recent GetReligion stories: “Charlie Hebdoâs Muhammad Cartoon Crassness” and “Foggy Bottomâs âpantywaist protocol pussy-footersâ.” Starting with the press coverage on the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and consulate in Benghazi, the articles (and our discussion) moved on to the vexed question of how the Western media reports on blasphemy in an Islamic context.
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