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2014-02-10T13:04:11-05:00

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How to cover the Mormons, England and religious liberty

Last updated on: February 10, 2014 at 1:04 pm By tmatt

It goes without saying that Godbeat veteran Peggy Fletcher Stack of the Salt Lake City Tribune has, over the past quarter of a century or so, covered more than her share of stories about doctrinal issues (and disputes) in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the moment, Mormon authorities are caught up in one of the most bizarre religious liberty stories in a year dominated by big religious liberty stories. I wanted to call attention to a... Read more

2014-02-09T23:59:10-05:00

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Francis is the right kind of pope, at least for Rolling Stone

Last updated on: February 9, 2014 at 11:59 pm By Jim Davis

Rolling Stone has done gaudy before. Its writers have weathered Lady Gaga’s meat gown, Madonna’s frills and external bras, Bowie’s androgynous alien Ziggy Stardust and more. Yet its cover story gets goggle-eyed at Catholic trappings — the “absurd, impossibly baroque backdrop of the Vatican” — just to show Pope Francis as moderate and low-key. And a liberal, modern, progressive (i.e., good) pontiff. All that and more goes into the cover story of the current Rolling Stone, painting Francis as a... Read more

2014-02-08T15:10:24-05:00

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Obama erases the ‘scare quotes’ around religious freedom?

Last updated on: February 8, 2014 at 3:10 pm By tmatt

In recent years, there has been quite a bit of discussion at GetReligion about the ways in which mainstream journalists use “scare quotes” as a way to suggest which causes they see as questionable, as opposed to social, political, cultural or religious causes that they believe are serious concerns. Consider, for example, the terms “religious liberty” — a very common term in First Amendment law and studies — and “religious freedom.” You may recall that Washington Post headline not that... Read more

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2014-02-07T13:58:18-05:00

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Pod people: Russell Wilson, ghosts, 10 years of GetReligion

Last updated on: February 7, 2014 at 1:58 pm By tmatt

Let’s do this one backwards. In a perfect world, the easy way to do mainstream news criticism is to find a really bad example of a problem and then, a few days later, find an example of an equally important news outlet that managed to do the story right. In this case, we are talking about one of those GetReligion ghosts, a religion angle woven into a major news story — yet missed by reporters and editors working on the... Read more

2014-02-06T23:23:42-05:00

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The Guardian: Ridiculing the saints, the Virgin and prayer

Last updated on: February 6, 2014 at 11:23 pm By geoconger

Why do we fight? Why do we write? What motivates our editor tmatt and the team at GetReligion to do what we do? For me, as I expect it is for my colleagues, it is the love of the game. To showcase the best examples of the craft of journalism — while chiding those that fall short. I began to follow GetReligion shortly after it went online in 2004. I was a professional acquaintance of one of its co-founders, Doug... Read more

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2014-02-06T14:14:07-05:00

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Were there any ghosts in the Rosenberg diary? You think?

Last updated on: February 6, 2014 at 2:14 pm By tmatt

First things first: Anyone who is interested in history, especially the history of the ideas behind Adolph Hitler, is going to amazed by the twists and turns that unfold in the new Los Angeles Times “Column One” feature about the search for the lost diary of Nazi intellectual Alfred Rosenberg. This is one amazing ride, with the son of a Holocaust survivor acting as a kind of quiet, peaceful, but highly motivated Indiana Jones on the quest to find the... Read more

2014-02-06T17:21:30-05:00

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Fetal distraction: Spinning abortion numbers

Last updated on: February 6, 2014 at 5:21 pm By Jim Davis

Abortions have fallen to their lowest rate since the Supreme Court enshrined it as a constitutional right in 1973, according to a new report by the Guttmacher Institute: 16.9 abortions for every 1,000 women between 15 and 44, versus 16.3 per 1,000 women back in 1973. Why this is happening is another matter. Cue the media debates. Guttmacher offered a few explanations. One was the improvement in contraceptives including IUDs. Another was the well-known deferral in childbearing by many couples.... Read more

2014-02-05T13:41:59-05:00

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Got news? Can Christian and atheist swap lives for a month?

Last updated on: February 5, 2014 at 1:41 pm By Tamie Ross

Half a world away from my Oklahoma home, an experiment just concluded in Australia. An atheist and a Christian who are friends agreed to trade places for a month and document the experience, with the summary promised later this week. According to a brief in online news’ The Blaze, believer Bentley Browning and non-believer Simon Capes gave up their respective belief systems for the other’s in January, “in the hopes of coming to understand one another’s views more fully.” They’re calling... Read more

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2014-02-04T17:33:48-05:00

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Jim Davis agrees to join GetReligion’s thriving Florida bureau

Last updated on: February 4, 2014 at 5:33 pm By Jim Davis

EDITOR’S NOTE: What can I say? When I lived in South Florida this guy was the local professional on the religion beat whose work landed in my front yard. Also, surely it means something that one of his email addresses is “religionwriter.” To cut to the chase, I’m happy to report that James Davis, one of the gentlemen of the profession in recent decades, is joining us here at GetReligion. Stop and think about it. With Father George Conger already... Read more

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2014-02-03T12:37:39-05:00

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Women and men and the Bible and the church

Last updated on: February 3, 2014 at 12:37 pm By Richard Ostling

PARK ASKS: What are the major scriptural passages [and interpretations] relative to a complementarian and egalitarian approach to gender roles in the church? THE GUY ANSWERS: This is a big one. First, about that lingo: “Egalitarians” say the Bible teaches across-the-board equality without regard to gender. Period. Nevertheless, this supposedly “liberal” view is held by many people who are commonly called “conservatives.” “Complementarians” — note that it’s “complement,” not “compliment” — say the Bible establishes different roles for men and... Read more

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