Let’s begin this post with this link to the Vatican’s Code of Canon Law:
Well here's a new journalism spin on female ordination
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A U.S. Army (trend) of one (or maybe two)
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The New York Times finally makes some changes on the fetus front
Oh to have been a fly on the fall during any editing discussions at The New York Times national desk during the time between the newspaper of record’s early report on the verdict in the Dr. Kermit Gosnell case and the final version that is currently online.
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Who's worthy of more coverage: Todd Akin or Kermit Gosnell?
When Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin made a comment about women being raped last year, the New York Times responded with, according to a search engine count, about 250 stories in under three months. A sample of the 19 (!) headlines from just the first two days*:
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Should journalists ask pro-choice activists some Kermit Gosnell questions?
The New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a Mother’s Day interview with, who else, the head of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood does a few things that people either love or hate, but none so much as aborting more than 300,000 unborn children each year.
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Death penalty in Cleveland horrors? Wait, who died?
Once again, let’s turn to the dictionary and that tricky word “fetus,” which has through the decades been at the heart of so many bitter newsroom arguments about abortion, morality, religion, science and law.
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A ghost in here? IRS targeting Jews too?
Fear not religion news reporters, you too can jump into one of the hottest news stories on the wires. Buried deep within an article reporting on the Internal Revenue Services’ harassment of conservative advocacy groups lurks  a religious liberty news story. That may not sound too exciting but you could rephrase the story pitch this way for your editor: Has the IRS created a religious test in order to define what it means to be a loyal Jew?
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Pod people: Proselytization, blasphemy and Kermit Gosnell
On this week’s Crossroads podcast with host Todd Wilken, we talked media coverage of the Pentagon and proselytization, religious freedom and the Benghazi whistleblowers and the trial of Kermit Gosnell. So yeah, we packed a lot in there.
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WWROD? Another stab at defining the word 'evangelical'
Long ago, I asked the Rev. Billy Graham a question that I really thought he, of all people, would be able to answer.
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