It’s time for another update from the “framing religion as politics” beat, care of The Star Tribune, up in Minnesota.
About that Archbishop Nienstedt conversion quote (updated)
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Get hexed? From our 'no comment' department
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Replacement referee goes to church. But which church?
A reader brought to our attention an interview of replacement referee Lance Easley by James Brown on yesterday’s NFL Today show on CBS. I’m a fan of JB’s interviewing style and he packed quite a bit into the seven or eight minute sit-down.
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Guardian ends the debate on abortion
There are no valid pro-life arguments. All right thinking people have seen the light, the Guardian reports, with support for legal limitations on abortion limited to the slack jawed troglodytes of the political right, Conservative Party MPs (possibly the same thing) and religious loonies.
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Got news? ‘Pro-choice terrorist’ pleads guilty
Among the many tragedies of the polarization over abortion is the fringe figures on both sides who resort to violence or are at risk of resorting to violence. They are not large in number but they do exist.
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Lies, Damn Lies and Polls
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”, the voice of the great and powerful Wizard of Oz tells Dorothy and her companions amidst the clap of thunder, clouds of smoke and frightening images of power and omniscience.
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Sun at it again: Ghost in McLouth's comeback
GetReligion readers, near and far, please pause and ponder the bizarre circumstances that were required to put me and Bobby “I like baseball in 100-degree-plus weather” Ross, Jr., in the same location — a pub near the Religion Newswriters Association meetings near the Beltway — on the night when his beloved Texas Rangers (who just couldn’t do their duty against the Oakland A’s) face my Baltimore Orioles, who are back in the playoffs after, what, 50 years?
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Church, Lone Star State and #RNA2012
As Mollie mentioned, the GetReligion team â which mostly hangs out together in cyberspace â has assembled in human form at the Religion Newswriters Association annual meeting in Bethesda, Md., just outside Washington, D.C.
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Boundaries on reporting on religion and politics
Yesterday I told you about the pre-conference to the Religion Newswriters Association annual conference being held over the next few days here in the Washington, D.C. area.
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