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2013-11-08T18:47:41-05:00

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That holy ghost in Baylor head coach’s guilt and grief

Last updated on: November 8, 2013 at 6:47 pm By tmatt

Right now, Baylor University coach Art Briles is one of the hottest leaders in college football, the creator of the hottest offense in around. Last night, the No. 6 Bears clawed the No. 10 Oklahoma Sooners to the tune of 41-12, even while losing three of their top four players on offense to injuries of various kinds. Yes, I am a Baylor alum, one who a decade-plus ago thought my alma mater faced certain gridiron doom if it stayed in... Read more

2013-11-08T16:47:41-05:00

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General Butt Naked and God in Der Spiegel

Last updated on: November 8, 2013 at 4:47 pm By geoconger

Let me commend for your reading a story in last week’s Der Spiegel on the Liberian war lord General Butt Naked. The article in its English-language version entitled “The Penitant Warlord: Atoning for 20,000 War Crimes” recounts the war crimes of Joshua Milton Blahyi and his subsequent transformation into a priest. But there is a chauvinism among many newspaper readers that when terms familiar to them are used in a story — “priest” being an example — the word means... Read more

2013-11-08T08:29:41-05:00

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Surprise! A same-sex marriage story that gets religion

Last updated on: November 8, 2013 at 8:29 am By Bobby Ross Jr.

For the latest Christian Chronicle, I wrote a news story on judicial authorities in the Pacific Northwest state of Washington formally admonishing a superior court judge — also a Church of Christ elder — for voicing his preference not to perform same-sex marriages. As part of that story, I cited the Wall Street Journal’s recent report — praised by GetReligion — on wedding professionals in at least six states running headlong into state antidiscrimination laws after refusing for religious reasons to bake... Read more

Illinois same-sex marriage law

Manya Brachears

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2013-11-07T14:33:36-05:00

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This is praise: USA Today church-state story was confusing

Last updated on: November 7, 2013 at 2:33 pm By tmatt

Welcome back to the First Amendment wars, an increasingly active front in our nation’s Culture Wars. Yesterday was a big church-state day at the U.S. Supreme Court, with the justices hearing testimony on the Town of Greece v. Galloway — yet another case centering on prayer in public life. If coverage of this event was not prominently displayed in your local newspaper today, there could be a logical reason for that. Mainstream journalists tend to be pro-First Amendment, but for... Read more

church-state separation

2013-11-07T08:36:18-05:00

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Still another one-sided same-sex marriage story

Last updated on: November 7, 2013 at 8:36 am By Bobby Ross Jr.

Here we go again. A major media organization has published still another one-sided story on the religious debate over same-sex marriage. This time, the guilty party is not The Associated Press. Rather, it’s USA Today, which as you might recall used to employ an actual religion writer. It could use one right about now. This story, which originated with Gannett sister paper The Tennessean, is a long, winding ode to same-sex marriage disguised (not extremely well) as a news story. Let’s start... Read more

United Methodist Church

USA Today

2013-11-06T19:13:59-05:00

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Grossman’s blog is back: Faith & Reason 2.0 at RNS

Last updated on: November 6, 2013 at 7:13 pm By tmatt

One of the first signs that the religion beat was in trouble at USA Today was the decision to shutter veteran scribe Cathy Grossman’s “Faith & Reason” weblog. Using a question-and-answer format — Grossman asked a news-related questions and readers would chime in — it allowed her to put quite a bit of interesting material into play for people who wanted more than a few religion headlines in the regular news pages. Day after day, Grossman used the blog to... Read more

Religion News Service

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U.S. Supreme Court

USA Today

2013-11-06T14:01:39-05:00

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Porn no more: Secular students inviting religious discussion

Last updated on: November 6, 2013 at 2:01 pm By Tamie Ross

Gone is the “low-hanging fruit” of years past when the media converged on the University of Texas-San Antonio campus each year to produce titillating stories on students exchanging Bibles and Qurans for porn. The annual “Smut for Smut” event is no more. In its place are kinder, gentler atheists, in the form of the Secular Student Alliance. The group says it wants conversation, not provocation, and will not revert to its old ways. Replacing the saucier stories and the reporters... Read more

San Antonio Express-News

Smut for Smut

University of Texas

2013-11-05T20:46:54-05:00

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Yo! NYPost! Did that school have a Catholic covenant?

Last updated on: November 5, 2013 at 8:46 pm By tmatt

This story is getting very, very familiar and it’s clear that these lawsuits are happening for a reason. As The New York Post reports: A prestigious Catholic high school booted a Bronx senior for being gay, the girl claims in a lawsuit. Amanda Acevedo, 17, says in court papers that a homophobic administrator at Preston HS in Throggs Neck took exception to her bringing a girl as a date to a school dance and embarked on a two-year campaign of... Read more

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gay rights

2013-11-05T15:48:39-05:00

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Mainline killed the local church star — paper blinks

Last updated on: November 5, 2013 at 3:48 pm By Mark Kellner

The death of a congregation is never pleasant, and the closure of the West Side Presbyterian Church in Englewood, New Jersey was no exception. Sunday, Nov. 3, was to see a final worship service at the 117-year-old congregation. According to The Bergen (N.J.) Record, simple demographics are to blame: “It’s going to be a good farewell,” said Bob Ryder, president of board of trustees for the Presbytery of the Palisades, which oversees nearly 50 Presbyterian churches in North Jersey. West... Read more

Presbyterian Church (USA)

2013-11-05T07:06:41-05:00

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Missing Catholic voices in Belgium’s euthanasia debate

Last updated on: November 5, 2013 at 7:06 am By geoconger

Let me commend to you an excellent article on a horrible subject. The Associated Press story “Belgium considering unprecedented law to grant euthanasia for children, dementia patients” reports on moves by the ruling Socialist Party to permit doctors to euthanize children as well as adults with dementia. This report — long at 1000 words from a wire service — offers a balanced account on the move to extend the right to die to children. It is thorough, balanced, provides context... Read more

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