When I saw this story come in (clicking on a URL from a reader), I immediately thought, “Here we go again.”
Serious story on separation of yoga and state
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When Worlds Collide II: Scientology and the Nation of Islam
The 25 October 2012 issue of The New Republic carries a story entitled âThetans and Bowtiesâ that I canât quite get my head round. By this I do not mean I do not understand what the article says â but I am having a hard time classifying its species.
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Evangelicals warming to Mormon Romney?
A recent front-page Los Angeles Times story makes the case that reluctant evangelical Christian voters are warming to Mormon Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee.
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Hurricanes and political storms, near my desk in D.C.
A long time ago (in digital terms), back at the beginning of this here weblog, I sat at my desk in West Palm Beach, Fla., listening to the sound of an oncoming hurricane and thinking about a very practical issue: How does one blog about religion news on a daily basis if the power goes out for, let’s say, a week?
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Something fishy in that AP racism story
The Associated Press had a huge story this weekend accusing American voters of racism, but a racism that has increased in the last four years. When people were asked if they were racist, they said no, but when a survey that measures racial preferences via tiny pictures and Chinese characters was used, the racism was found. The subhead at USA Today is “Overall, the survey found that by virtue of racial prejudice, Obama could lose 5 percentage points off his share of the popular vote on Nov. 6.” I’m still working through my thoughts about the story, how it was chosen, what it means that the Associated Press chose to investigate this story, the methodology they used, how they interpreted the results, and so on and so forth. But while digging through the data, I came across something very weird.
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Pod people: Theodicy, pinnochios and the war on women
Last week was not one of the best for the mainstream media. I just wrote a lengthy screed about how awful the coverage, or the lack thereof, was about an Indiana Senate candidate, the administration’s handling of a terrorist attack by Muslim extremists in Libya and a so-called “war on women.” You know which one didn’t receive much coverage from most outlets and which ones did. And you can hear me talk about it on this week’s Crossroads podcast.
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Writing a puff piece: a how-to manual
Truth be told, in our bias for fair, accurate journalism, we at GetReligion probably focus too much on the negative.
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Boooo! One-side story praising Halloween evangelism?
It would be hard to imagine anything more controversial, in the American of 2012, than the concept that certain sinful lifestyle behaviors can lead to people being condemned by God to spend eternity in hell. For starters, this would mean that the word “sin” can be applied to behaviors other than those judged intolerant by the editorial page board at The New York Times.
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Economist offers rare insights into Salafists
I have a friend who once worked for Time (actually, several people fit under that umbrella) who once made a very interesting observation about the state of foreign news in that newsweekly, which was once famous for its excellent, sweeping coverage of world affairs.
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