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2014-03-21T11:46:27-04:00

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Boo! No ghosts in WSJ coverage of rural-urban divide

Last updated on: March 21, 2014 at 11:46 am By Bobby Ross Jr.

In a 2006 column about my grandparents, I reflected on my rural upbringing: I close my eyes and I am back in Hayward, a speck on the map in southeastern Missouri’s Bootheel where my Papa and Grandma Ross lived. I see my grandparents’ wood-paneled station wagon parked outside the two-story house that Papa built himself. Nearby, there’s a boat and fishing poles still dripping wet from a day on the Mississippi River. I hear the crush of dirt under my... Read more

2014-03-21T11:48:32-04:00

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DPA reports on the return of the Eternal Jew to Württemberg

Last updated on: March 21, 2014 at 11:48 am By geoconger

What is legal is not always moral, a German court observed this past week, holding that an organization may dismiss an employee for conduct that the state affirms as being within the law but which the organization views as wrong. This sort of story in an American context might generate a line or two of commentary, but little more in the wake of the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hosanna-Tabor Church v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which held there was... Read more

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2014-03-20T09:36:37-04:00

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Do baby elephants dwell on same-sex marriage?

Last updated on: March 20, 2014 at 9:36 am By Jim Davis

Young Republicans: so stylish and libertarian. So free of cares, except perhaps for weed and gay marriage. That’s the view, at least, from the New York Times, which highlighted them at the recent conference of the Conservative Political Action Committee. The story purports to unveil differences between the baby elephants and their elders. It succeeds only on an extremely narrow band: the two hot-button issues of marijuana and homosexual relationships. The Times piece starts out as “color,” with the reporter... Read more

2014-03-20T18:34:05-04:00

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Memory eternal: Metropolitan Philip’s life was a story

Last updated on: March 20, 2014 at 6:34 pm By tmatt

Anyone who has worked on the religion beat for more than, well, a week knows that the membership statistics circulated by most mainstream religious organizations are rarely worth the paper on which they are printed. For example, while there may, in fact, be 1.2 billion Catholics in this world of ours this tells us very little about the number of believers who are in Mass every week, who frequent the rite of Confession or who, as parents, would be truly... Read more

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2014-03-20T12:31:53-04:00

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Do Mormon women lack standing in their own faith?

Last updated on: March 20, 2014 at 12:31 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

The issue of women’s roles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been bubbling for a while, and it’s back in the news this week. As Religion News Service reported, the Ordain Women advocacy group will be denied access to the Mormons’ all-male general priesthood session next month. That latest news reminds me that we need to pull an important item out of our GetReligion guilt file — those stories that we want to cover but for whatever reason haven’t. I’m... Read more

2014-03-20T09:46:28-04:00

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Back in the USSR! Izvestia on the Crimea

Last updated on: March 20, 2014 at 9:46 am By geoconger

Save for Mitt Romney, no one — in my opinion, at least — appears likely to benefit from the Anschluss in the Crimea. Not only has the annexation of the Crimea by Russia been a blow to the Ukraine, it has underscored the fecklessness of the EU and President Obama while also pointing to the structural weakness of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. And it is really, really bad news for the Russian Orthodox Church. Bet that line caught you by surprise.... Read more

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2014-03-19T21:16:38-04:00

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Say what!? A Phelps story even Joe Friday would approve

Last updated on: March 19, 2014 at 9:16 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Bad journalism makes for good GetReligion posts. See “‘Fred Phelps has been excommunicated’ and other gossip” and “Do journalists need to crank up the Phelps vitriol? Really?” Those excellent posts by Jim Davis and Terry Mattingly highlight the media’s sins in reporting on the dire health situation of Phelps, founder of the famous — for all the wrong reasons — Westboro Baptist Church. Our tmatt, in super-punctuation mode, urges: So journalists, please just quote people. That. Will. Be. Wild. Enough. How... Read more

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2014-03-19T14:03:49-04:00

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Just another generic do-gooder on a Baltimore pro team

Last updated on: March 19, 2014 at 2:03 pm By tmatt

At this point, I have just about decided that the editors of The Baltimore Sun sports section have banned the use of the word “Christian” in stories about local and national athletes. Several times a year (for an imperfect survey, click here), the newspaper that lands in my front door prints a sports story that, from beginning to end, is full of religious themes, yet stops short of printing a few crucial facts. Consider, for example, this profile of Jemile... Read more

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2014-03-19T12:14:20-04:00

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Do journalists need to crank up the Phelps vitriol? Really?

Last updated on: March 19, 2014 at 12:14 pm By tmatt

At this point, it’s pretty clear that coverage of the demise of the Rev. Fred Phelps is going to test the limits of what mainstream journalists are willing and able to print in hard-news stories in mainstream newspapers. As our own Jim Davis noted yesterday, the editors at The New York Daily News approved a clever, but rather column-esque, lede on their basic news story on the reports (originating from estranged son Nathan Phelps) that the anti-gay patriarch of the... Read more

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2014-03-18T12:02:23-04:00

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Universe gives birth to itself, transformed by unknown ‘force’

Last updated on: March 18, 2014 at 12:02 pm By tmatt

This is a challenging day to be a journalist on the science beat, if the goal is to avoid ultimate questions. I am happy to report that The Washington Post — to my surprise, quite frankly — didn’t try to avoid the obvious. Here’s the top of its story on the Big Bang update that is making global headlines: In the beginning, the universe got very big very fast, transforming itself in a fraction of an instant from something almost... Read more

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