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2013-12-02T10:17:26-05:00

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AP’s not-too-religious airport chaplain story

Last updated on: December 2, 2013 at 10:17 am By Mark Kellner

The entire long Thanksgiving weekend, it’s widely reported, is the busiest air-travel season in the United States. So, it’s not too difficult to imagine human interest stories about life in and around major airports, which The Associated Press rightly declares are “mini-cities” with a life and culture all their own, right down to a local church or, in most cases, an interfaith chapel. Said chapels are staffed by either volunteer or paid chaplains, and that’s where the AP comes in... Read more

2013-11-29T17:48:38-05:00

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As on a darkling plain – Prozac and France

Last updated on: November 29, 2013 at 5:48 pm By geoconger

The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach, stanza 3, (1867) More bad news for France. The lede in the back cover story (page 22) in the Nov 26, 2013 issue of Le... Read more

2013-11-28T11:45:35-05:00

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Pod people: LA Times cheers for United Methodist ‘reform’

Last updated on: November 28, 2013 at 11:45 am By tmatt

If readers want to know where The Los Angeles Times stands on the issues the loomed over the United Methodist Church trial of the Rev. Frank Schaefer, all they have to do is read one summary passage in a recent update. Schaefer, GetReligion readers will recall, was on trial for violating his ordination vows, in which he promised to defend the “order, liturgy, doctrine, and discipline” of his local, national and global church. He broke his ordination vows by performing... Read more

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2013-12-01T14:49:37-05:00

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Hey WPost: What did Pope Francis say about abortion?

Last updated on: December 1, 2013 at 2:49 pm By tmatt

It is a serious understatement to note that Pope Francis has made more than his share of news during the honeymoon months of his papacy. Mainstream reporters have rushed to cover almost everything this charismatic leader has had to say. The “almost everything” clause is, however, rather important. It was news, for example, when the pope said that the church has been unbalanced in its approach to promoting it’s teachings on the sanctity of life, stressing public-square politics over pastoral... Read more

2013-11-27T09:30:01-05:00

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Reuters skips a key detail in Israel’s wedding wars — divorce

Last updated on: November 27, 2013 at 9:30 am By Mark Kellner

Everybody loves a wedding, or so culture would have us believe. However, according to a report from the Reuters news agency, not every Israeli likes the wedding options available in that country: For most Israelis in the Jewish state, there is one legal way to get married — God’s way. Israeli law empowers only Orthodox rabbis to officiate at Jewish weddings, but popular opposition is growing to this restriction and to what some Israelis see as an Orthodox stranglehold on... Read more

2013-11-26T12:12:58-05:00

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What was the demon Adam Lanza locked in that hard drive?

Last updated on: November 26, 2013 at 12:12 pm By tmatt

From the beginning, there was a familiar moral tension at the heart of news coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. It’s hard to ponder such a hellish act without wanting to be able to name the demon, to link the actions of the young gunman to some kind of logical motive. Was religion involved? Maybe. Maybe not. Did faith play any role in the dramas inside the silent home in which Adam Lanza and his mother Nancy lived... Read more

2013-11-26T12:44:51-05:00

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CBS discovers the Catholic priest shortage

Last updated on: November 26, 2013 at 12:44 pm By geoconger

I am reaching back a bit into my guilt file — stories I want to cover but for one reason or another have not touched. But the recent flurry of news stories about women priests and the Catholic clergy shortage led me to pull this item out of my bag. The CBS Evening News reported earlier this year that there is a shortage of Roman Catholic priests in the United States. This may be news to some, I suppose, but... Read more

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2013-11-25T16:27:28-05:00

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Hobby Lobby, the Little Sisters of the Poor and the NYTimes

Last updated on: November 25, 2013 at 4:27 pm By tmatt

As a rule, conflicts between church and state are extremely complex and often produce headaches, even among those who have years of experience working in such dangerous intellectual terrain. Frankly, I have no idea how general-assignment reporters can handle this stuff without the help of thick research folders and very experienced editors. Today’s New York Times article on the Hobby Lobby case is, in my opinion, a better than average effort when it comes to church-state coverage in the mainstream... Read more

2013-11-24T18:17:07-05:00

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Where’s the other side in atheist lawsuit story?

Last updated on: November 24, 2013 at 6:17 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Religion News Service had an interesting story recently about atheists challenging Uncle Sam over nonprofit financial reporting. It’s a pretty straightforward account: Nonbelievers are challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s special exemptions for religious organizations in a federal court in Kentucky, saying churches and other religious groups should have the same financial rules as other nonprofit groups. If they prevail, it will change the tax-exempt status of churches and other religious organizations, and require the same transparency of donors, salaries and other expenditures that secular nonprofits... Read more

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2013-11-24T12:59:17-05:00

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NYTimes: Mouseketeer-turned-Pagan-turned-Christian trip

Last updated on: November 24, 2013 at 12:59 pm By Mark Kellner

One of the staples of evangelical Christianity — at least so far as I can remember — is the story of the spectacular sinner who found redemption, preferably on the “sawdust trail” of a tent revivalist’s “canvass cathedral.” One of the more dramatic examples is the 1949 conversion of songwriter/actor Stuart Hamblen under the ministry of a then-very-young Billy Graham; Hamblen went on to write a gospel music staple, “It Is No Secret,” about that experience. It is equally true... Read more

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