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2014-03-26T09:56:53-04:00

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Burn baby burn!

Last updated on: March 26, 2014 at 9:56 am By geoconger

Outrage is a tricky thing. The worldview a reporter brings to the coverage of a story, such as loathing or disgust, will color his account of the incident. For an American tabloid or British redtop we expect bias, sensationalism and outrage — faux or genuine. But when should a reporter for a quality, mainstream newspaper seek out sources who can debate why an act is or is not evil? A story dated March 24, 2014 in the Daily Telegraph entitled... Read more

2014-03-25T17:48:13-04:00

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On Hobby Lobby, how does the Supreme Court measure up?

Last updated on: March 25, 2014 at 5:48 pm By Jim Davis

Aaaaiiieeeee! More “devout Catholics!” No, wait. The Washington Post seems here to be using the term more responsibly, examining the relationship between beliefs and verdicts. And it doesn’t even use the term as a launchpad for a liberal screed. The article tied to the Hobby Lobby case is not flawless, but it does try to advance knowledge for people who aren’t court watchers. How well, though, is a good question. After a painful cliché — “The justices got religion” —... Read more

2014-03-25T11:42:15-04:00

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Baltimore Sun prints a plug for ‘meditation’ — one form of it

Last updated on: March 25, 2014 at 11:42 am By tmatt

Long ago, I worked in for a newspaper that published a large, large feature story in its style pages about divorce recovery. The package included — this was at the dawn of the “news you can use” era — a list of local divorce-recovery groups similar to the ones discussed in the story. This directory included at least two dozen such groups, many offering unique spins on this painful subject. There were feminist divorce-recovery groups and New Age groups. There... Read more

2014-03-25T17:53:12-04:00

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Ready, set, go! Hobby Lobby at the Supremes

Last updated on: March 25, 2014 at 5:53 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Hobby Lobby gets its hearing before the Supreme Court this morning. This is big, folks. As the Los Angeles Times describes it: WASHINGTON — A challenge to part of President Obama’s healthcare law that hits the Supreme Court on Tuesday could lead to one of the most significant religious freedom rulings in the high court’s history. USA Today puts it even more dramatically: WASHINGTON — President Obama’s health care law gets a return engagement at the Supreme Court (this week) in a case... Read more

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2014-03-26T04:32:31-04:00

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Is the pope as Catholic as the president? The Times will tell

Last updated on: March 26, 2014 at 4:32 am By tmatt

Long, long ago, I covered religion news during the era in which Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago was one of the most powerful newsmakers on the beat. At the time, I thought it was interesting that conservative Catholics and mainstream journalists had such similar takes on this complicated man. Many, but not all, conservative Catholics were truly convinced that the cardinal was a liberal’s liberal through and through and that his “seamless garment” approach to moral theology was a shameless... Read more

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2014-03-24T13:14:44-04:00

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Why did some ancient religions fall and others rise?

Last updated on: March 24, 2014 at 1:14 pm By Richard Ostling

MADDIE ASKS: What caused ancient religions to become less prevalent? THE RELIGION GUY ANSWERS: Our previous Q and A item treated ancient Confucianism, Jainism, Shinto and Taoism, which have survived into the 21st Century but with radically diminished status. Maddie wonders why ancient Babylonian, Greek and Roman mythologies died out and Zoroastrianism has nearly disappeared while Judaism and Hinduism didn’t vanish like other ancient creeds. She asks, did the younger proselytizing faiths of Christianity and Islam simply “push out” the... Read more

2014-03-24T09:26:14-04:00

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GR reader contributes a little ghost-spotting of his own

Last updated on: March 24, 2014 at 9:26 am By Jim Davis

You know that cliché about some stories writing themselves? Well, sometimes a reader fairly writes stories for us, too. It came this past week with a brief e-mail by James Stagg, a friend of this blog. He called our attention to mostly excellent interview with the Rev. George Coyne, a Jesuit priest and former director of the Vatican Observatory. Not without its issues, though. See below. The Q&A-style interview, on Syracuse.com, has an adept triple news hook. For one, many... Read more

2014-03-23T17:07:22-04:00

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Surprise! Dallas Morning News finds a Methodist to quote

Last updated on: March 23, 2014 at 5:07 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Once or twice (or maybe three or four or five times) in recent weeks, we have criticized The Dallas Morning News’ inability to find anyone to quote who supports the United Methodist Church’s stance on homosexuality as “incompatible with Christian teaching.” The Methodist bishop for the region, Michael “Never Can Be Reached for Comment” McKee, hasn’t helped matters any, from a journalistic perspective. Whether there’s a history between the bishop and the Morning News or he just doesn’t want to be quoted... Read more

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2014-03-22T15:13:13-04:00

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Pod people: To the end of the secular universe and beyond!

Last updated on: March 22, 2014 at 3:13 pm By tmatt

Imagine that you are caught in the middle of the following puzzle. You are a journalist who works for a mainstream newspaper, broadcast network or wire service. According to decades of tradition about your craft, you are supposed to write news copy that ordinary Americans — some say middle-school level readers — can read and understand. So you are sent to cover a story that is linked to a very complicated scientific event that, in order to understand it, would... Read more

2014-03-22T10:38:32-04:00

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Do skewed churches deserve skewed coverage?

Last updated on: March 22, 2014 at 10:38 am By Jim Davis

Funny, isn’t it? So many people recoiled in horror at the judgmentalism of the Rev. Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church. Now that he’s dead and gone — but the church is still here to kick around — a lot of journalists seemingly can’t spew insults fast enough. One of the thickest volleys of darts flew from the International Business Times, which listed tweets of the rich and famous — and judgmental. Some vented spite on a fire-and-brimstone level.... Read more

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