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2014-02-19T10:44:20-05:00

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It’s 5 o’clock somewhere: hymns and happy hour?

Last updated on: February 19, 2014 at 10:44 am By Tamie Ross

“Beer with Jesus” might have fallen off the country music charts, but the trend has legs — er, foam — apparently. You may remember the other half of our resident husband-wife team, GetReligionista Bobby Ross Jr., writing a post in November on the subject. In summary, he looked at reports on churches offering services in pubs and bars and the successes and failures in each. We have a new twist to the story now, and it comes to us from the... Read more

2014-02-20T11:39:07-05:00

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Miscues in news on gay blessings and marriage from London

Last updated on: February 20, 2014 at 11:39 am By geoconger

The Valentine’s Day statement from the House of Bishops of the Church of England on gay marriage has fluttered the Anglican dovecots. The story received A1 treatment from the British press and it spawned commentaries and opinion pieces in the major outlets. The second day stories reported some activists were “appalled” by the news whilst others were over the moon with delight — but being British their joy did not rise to continental expressions of euphoria. The story continues to... Read more

2014-02-18T09:35:52-05:00

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Flowers, cakes and objections to same-sex weddings

Last updated on: February 18, 2014 at 9:35 am By Bobby Ross Jr.

In two recent posts — here and here — I critiqued media coverage of proposed religious exemptions for florists, bakers, photographers and others opposed to same-sex marriage. Last month, I examined news reports on a federal judge striking down the ban on same-sex marriage in my home state of Oklahoma. In Sunday’s Tulsa World, those subject areas came together in a front-page story: Oklahoma may soon join a growing number of states where same-sex marriage laws and religious liberty concerns are on a collision course.... Read more

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2014-02-17T20:53:19-05:00

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Tears and prayers on camera: Did NBC want the full Oprah?

Last updated on: February 17, 2014 at 8:53 pm By tmatt

Anyone who has watched television coverage of tense, painful events has seen it happen. This is especially true of news events that can, in any way, accurately be described as “disasters.” Years ago, I had a conversation with the late Peter Jennings about what happens next on camera: Inevitably, a reporter confronts a survivor and asks: “How did you get through this terrible experience?” As often as not, a survivor replies: “I don’t know. I just prayed. Without God’s help,... Read more

2014-02-17T17:52:31-05:00

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Part II of America’s church slide: What to do?

Last updated on: February 17, 2014 at 5:52 pm By Richard Ostling

EDITOR’S NOTE: Part I of “Why the slide in the influence of America’s churches?” GENE ASKS: What one factor more than any other would draw more people into the church? THE GUY ANSWERS: In the previous Religion Q and A, Gene asked: “What one factor accounts for the indifference so many Americans harbor toward the church?” The Guy nominated “fading cultural respect,” scanned what observers think about causes, and covered mostly hard church trends, not soft “spiritual but not religious”... Read more

2014-02-17T08:23:40-05:00

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Report both sides of the story, unless you’re HuffPost

Last updated on: February 17, 2014 at 8:23 am By Jim Davis

A bill dealing with gay weddings is being hotly debated in Kansas, but not in a Huffington Post article about it. The clumsily titled “Being Gay Ain’t Okay in Kansas” would fit well in a journalism textbook chapter on one-sided reporting. The article, summarizing a HuffPost Live video, loads the first paragraph with the warning that the bill, if passed, “would allow discrimination against same-sex couples on the basis of religious beliefs.” It then quotes legislator Emily Perry, interviewed in the... Read more

2014-02-16T16:38:30-05:00

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Seeking the sympathetic critics of Bob Jones University

Last updated on: February 16, 2014 at 4:38 pm By tmatt

As any journalist knows, institutions — secular or religious — do not like to talk about their failures, let alone their sins. Often this is caused by their lawyers who are anxious to head off lawsuits or to protect their client’s rights when conflicts take place. When this approach is applied to media relations, the result is either total silence or a bullet-proof form of public relations that seeks to protect the mother ship — period. We talk about this... Read more

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Creeping Fundamentalism

Basyle J. Tchividjian

2014-02-15T23:50:47-05:00

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Camels and tigers and bears, oh my!

Last updated on: February 15, 2014 at 11:50 pm By geoconger

The silly season is early this year. With editors and most top-tier reporters away in August on vacation (along with the subjects of their stories — need to set the proper precedence of seniority at the start of this story) the late summer is the time when the second team knocks out stories that leave readers asking: “what were they thinking?” True — there are exceptions to this venerable custom. What would Easter or Christmas be without stories proclaiming what... Read more

Biblical Interpretation

2014-02-14T17:11:58-05:00

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A plea for gay, er, atheist rights

Last updated on: February 14, 2014 at 5:11 pm By Jim Davis

Those poor atheists. They have to keep their heads down in repressive American society. They have to watch their words, hide their feelings, guard their secret. Very much like gays, that other major repressed American group. This is the setup in a feature story in The Telegraph about the state of unbelief in the U.S. The story even starts with a heavy-handed scene-setter of a furtive club meeting: Going around the circle, each member shares their story and says whether... Read more

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2014-02-14T12:20:04-05:00

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Got news? The one and only Caesar of Jewish humor

Last updated on: February 14, 2014 at 12:20 pm By tmatt

Remember all of those nasty charges by anti-Semites through the years that The New York Times is controlled by Jews and that it’s pages have been dominated by Jewish concerns? Yes, I know about the Sulzberger family. But if the Times team views the world through some kind of Jewish prism, then explain the following passage from the newspaper’s lengthy obituary for the truly great American comedian Sid Caesar: Albert Einstein was a Caesar fan. Alfred Hitchcock called Mr. Caesar... Read more

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