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2014-08-29T14:27:48-04:00

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LATimes offers readers a simple, one-sided take on Vatican

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm By tmatt

Every niche website has a few “big ideas” that drive its work day after day. Any GetReligion reader knows — duh — that one of our big ideas is that the press often doesn’t see crucial religious themes and facts that are at the heart of important news stories. That’s the whole “ghost” concept that is explained in the essay published when we opened for business. If you never stopped to read that one, please do. Another crucial concept for... Read more

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2014-08-29T14:27:49-04:00

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Falwell’s 2014 Liberty: ‘Fundamentalist Baptist’ university?

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Here at GetReligion, the “F-word” always catches our attention. I’m referring, of course, to fundamentalist. It’s a loaded word that can carry a negative connotation when applied to religious groups or institutions. The Associated Press Stylebook — “the journalist’s bible” — contains this entry: fundamentalist: The word gained usage in an early 20th century fundamentalist-modernist controversy within Protestantism. In recent years, however, fundamentalist has to a large extent taken on pejorative connotations except when applied to groups that stress strict, literal interpretations... Read more

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2014-08-29T14:27:49-04:00

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WPost still gets ‘Julia’ vote, but what about church ladies?

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm By tmatt

The other day I wrote a post about a Washington Post story about the upcoming elections that managed to do something really interesting: It addressed the challenges Democrats are facing as they try to frame issues going into the midterm elections in ways that would inspire their voters, yet managed to do so without mentioning the ongoing “pew gap” factor. You remember the pew gap don’t you? It’s the trend, during recent decades, in which people who frequently attend worship... Read more

2014-08-29T14:27:50-04:00

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Same-sex marriage, religious freedom and a liberal twist

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

An extremely interesting — and potentially highly important — twist came Monday in the ongoing culture wars over religious liberty. New York Times religion writer Michael Paulson reports: In a novel legal attack on a state’s same-sex marriage ban, a liberal Protestant denomination on Monday filed a lawsuit arguing that North Carolina is unconstitutionally restricting religious freedom by barring clergy members from blessing gay and lesbian couples. The lawsuit, filed in a Federal District Court by the United Church of Christ,... Read more

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2014-08-29T14:27:50-04:00

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Only one vision of the complex lives of two Vatican II saints

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm By tmatt

So, what was that remarkable “day of the four popes” all about anyway? Prepare to be shocked, shocked, at the framing of this amazing event. Here is the archetypal opening of the pre-event report in The Los Angeles Times: One helped revolutionize the church, becoming an enduring icon among progressive Roman Catholics who view religion as a vehicle for justice and peace. The other figured in a societal revolution outside the church, earning the adulation of conservatives by battling communism... Read more

2014-08-29T14:27:51-04:00

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Is Mehmet Ali Agca crazy or just a bad Catholic?

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm By geoconger

The upcoming canonizations of Blessed John XXIII and Blessed John Paul II have generated some very good press for the Roman Catholic Church. While a few articles have sought to punch holes in the reputations of the soon to be saints — a frequent criticism I have seen is that John Paul was negligent in disciplining the serial abuser Fr. Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legion of Christ — most converge has been positive. The German news magazine Der Spiegel published... Read more

2014-08-29T14:27:52-04:00

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Was Kabul shooting over religion? Shouldn’t someone ask?

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm By Jim Davis

Q: What question has no answer? A: The one you don’t ask. In Thursday’s shooting of several people at a Christian hospital in Kabul, the question would be: Could it have anything to do with their religion? True, the answer doesn’t rest neatly on the surface. The shooter — horrifically, a policeman assigned to guard the hospital — didn’t shout the usual “Alahu Akbar” before gunning down Dr. Jerry Umanos and two visitors at CURE International Hospital. Nor have any... Read more

2014-08-29T14:27:52-04:00

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Buddhists boldly bully buzzed Brits

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm By geoconger

The obnoxious Englishman abroad is a well loved story in the British press. The opprobrium once reserved for the British football hooligan abroad has now spread to his vacationing cousins. Cheap airfares and package holidays to the beaches of the Mediterranean, Florida and points East have given the Briton abroad a reputation for boorishness, lewdness, and alcohol-fueled vulgarity. “They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,” the mayor of Malia, a popular... Read more

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2014-08-29T14:27:53-04:00

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AP sticks it to Mississippi religious freedom law

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Earlier this month, I wrote a post titled “Via AP, a tasty piece on a same-sex wedding cake.” In that post, I praised an Associated Press story out of Colorado that did an exceptional job of reporting on what happens when religious liberty clashes with gay rights. That story excelled because the AP focused on real people — their experiences, their beliefs — while fairly representing both sides. Both the tone and presentation of that report seemed journalistically neutral. Contrast that with... Read more

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2014-08-29T14:27:53-04:00

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Al Jazeera offers its own take (literally) on SBC sex summit

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm By tmatt

A week or so ago I mentioned, in a meeting that included both traditional and progressive evangelicals, that the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention was going to hold a three-day “sex summit” in Nashville and lots of people laughed. They obviously had not looked at some of the rather interesting sessions on the docket, which included newsworthy real-life topics (at least to me) such as pastors who are wrestling with their own porn addictions, advice... Read more

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