Let’s face it. The mainstream press really struggles when trying to cover life in African-American churches.
Why can't press get religion, when covering black churches?
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Ohio State vs. Notre Dame's 'damn Catholics'
Earlier this week, I saw someone tweet something about how the Republican Party “should never write off any block of voters. Itâs horrible politics and it causes great damage.” I retweeted it with the note “Except Methodists.”
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The big questions facing that out gay Catholic priest
It is my experience, through my decades on the religion beat, that liberal Catholics genuinely love talking to mainstream news reporters.
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German cardinal found guilty of being pro-natalist
One of the most common fallacies of our age is the assumption that simply because we prefer a certain set of social policies they must therefore be compatible.
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Media coverage of religious profiling
So tmatt has us all doing this experiment of reading a daily paper. I haven’t subscribed to a newspaper in a very long time. I used to get both the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. Fifteen years and 2,000 miles later, I get the Washington Post. The thing that has struck me the most about this go around is how very, very, very thin the papers are. When did that happen? Some days’ editions are barely there!
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God and faith in Oklahoma tornado coverage
In my first-person account of the Moore, Okla., tornado last week, I predicted that the faith and resiliency of the state’s residents would be a major theme in media coverage.
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Hanging out with Sheryl Crow and her kids -- where?
While I have not lived in Nashville (yet), I have spent a lot of time there and know quite a bit about the town.
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News media's curiously wrong-headed possession obsession
Last week I made fun of that Associated Press story that claimed Pope Francis was “obsessed” with Satan. In the comment to that piece, reader Martha Keefe remarked:
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Haunted story or not? On vampires, Satanism and murder
Day after day, the stunning story of young Morgan Lane Arnold has unfolded in the pages of The Baltimore Sun, with each revelation only making key elements of this bloody crime more and more mysterious.
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