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2013-11-19T11:45:53-05:00

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Those Latter-day Saints: What’s in a name?

Last updated on: November 19, 2013 at 11:45 am By Richard Ostling

ROYCE WONDERS: (Paraphrasing) What’s the origin of Mormonism’s official name, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and do those two “of” phrases mean Saints are on equal footing with Jesus, or that Jesus was Mormon, or what? THE GUY RESPONDS: The founding Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. originally called his group “the Church of Christ.” The scriptures that Smith added to the Bible say that in an 1831 revelation God pronounced this to be “the only true and living... Read more

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2013-11-21T17:07:18-05:00

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Oh, those pagan Irish Anglicans?

Last updated on: November 21, 2013 at 5:07 pm By geoconger

Was it a case of good manners? Did the editors at The Irish Times print the obituary of Olivia Durdin Robertson, who it described as, “the self-styled ‘high priestess’ of a Co Carlow-based cult devoted to an ancient Egyptian goddess, [who] has died aged 96,” without any comment or further investigation to avoid a scandal in the Church of Ireland? Or were they unaware of what they had in front of them? The Church of Ireland is in a delicate... Read more

2013-11-18T16:58:53-05:00

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Are all Jews preparing for Thanksgivukkah the same way?

Last updated on: November 18, 2013 at 4:58 pm By tmatt

Many years ago, I worked at a newspaper — let’s leave the name out of this discussion — that ran a Hanukkah feature, with lots of art, about an exhibit of menorahs. The interesting wrinkle was that some of these menorahs were quite modern or even postmodern in design, including several that specifically violated ancient Jewish laws about how to make, and how not to make, menorahs. The newspaper feature did not note this conflict about the shape and content... Read more

2013-11-17T16:38:54-05:00

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Blessed corpses — and holy ghosts — after typhoon

Last updated on: November 17, 2013 at 4:38 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Here’s my nominee for “Most Bland Headline of the Weekend.” It appeared atop an Associated Press report: Church services held in typhoon-shattered city On the other hand, the story’s lede is pretty compelling: TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Hours after the storm hit the Philippines, the Rev. Amadero Alvero was on the streets, sprinkling holy water over the dead and praying for them. By late afternoon, the 44-year-priest had blessed about 50 corpses in the remains of this shattered city. He then returned to his half-destroyed Santo Nino... Read more

2013-11-17T14:15:57-05:00

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Here we go again: That new normal on SSM coverage

Last updated on: November 17, 2013 at 2:15 pm By tmatt

At this point, I think it is safe to say — as our own Bobby Ross, Jr., has demonstrated numerous times — that many mainstream American journalists have decided that there is no need to cover both sides of gay-rights stories in a balanced and accurate manner. Many professionals in the mainstream press are now practicing a brand of advocacy journalism when covering religious believers whose religious/moral doctrines are not the same as their own. Do we have former New... Read more

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2013-11-16T16:11:57-05:00

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NYTimes frames snake handler issue — correctly!

Last updated on: November 16, 2013 at 4:11 pm By Mark Kellner

Even though The New York Times is the newspaper I sometimes “love to hate” for its often-casual approach to religion news, there are occasions when the “Gray Lady,” as the paper is historically known, gets it right. Too much of this and I might just get the vapors. Come with me now (click here for the story itself) to the steps of a courthouse in East Tennessee, where the forces of one famous form of fervent faith and the power of... Read more

Creeping Fundamentalism

2013-11-16T08:33:14-05:00

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Pod people: Don’t mess with C.S. Lewis

Last updated on: November 16, 2013 at 8:33 am By geoconger

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Dorothy Parker in her review of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (1957). I cannot read Ayn Rand. I have tried. As a teenager, friends assured me I would love Atlas Shrugged. I didn’t. In college and in my 20’s I was pressed to try again. I did, this time cracking open The Fountainhead. I detested it. Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal could not budge... Read more

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2013-11-15T13:01:09-05:00

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People were massacred in North Korea for WHAT?!?

Last updated on: November 15, 2013 at 1:01 pm By tmatt

Contrary to popular belief, the mainstream press really isn’t very effective when it comes to telling individual citizens what to think. However, as the old saying goes, the leaders of the mainstream news media (ditto for Hollywood) are much more effective when it comes to telling the American population, as a whole, what subjects to think ABOUT. Some trends and events jump straight into the headlines, while others do not. Most reporters immediately grasp the political implications of events, facts,... Read more

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2013-11-15T08:57:07-05:00

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Story envy, courtesy of the New York Times

Last updated on: November 15, 2013 at 8:57 am By Tamie Ross

I’ll just come out and say it: I wish I had written this story. Well done, New York Times, from the headline to the ending. Readers, pour yourself a glass of milk, grab a chocolate-chip cookie (trust me, it’s vital to the enjoyment and proper digestion of this piece) and prepare to be satisfied in a way few first-person stories on Christian adoption are able to please. Back? OK, good. Let’s review good journalism, the craft of complete storytelling and... Read more

2013-11-16T21:52:27-05:00

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Got news? Bishops stand on HHS mandate (updated)

Last updated on: November 16, 2013 at 9:52 pm By tmatt

What you see at the top of this post is the content of today’s Baltimore Sun report on yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Catholic bishops — or at least, many of them — to continue their high-stakes fight against the White House and its Health and Human Services mandate. Right. The box is empty. I am referring, of course, to the mandate requiring most religious institutions to offer health-insurance plans that cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved forms of contraception, including... Read more

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