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2013-10-07T09:10:19-04:00

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Unforced Anglican errors from The Telegraph

Last updated on: October 7, 2013 at 9:10 am By geoconger

The Telegraph has waded into the waters of international Anglican affairs — and I’m afraid someone should toss a life line as it is about to go under. The article on the forthcoming meeting in Nairobi of Anglican leaders entitled “Challenge to Welby as traditionalist Anglicans stage ‘fragmentation’ summit” is not up to the newspaper’s usual standard. It has the story backwards. As tmatt, the editor here at GetReligion, often reminds me, I sometimes wander off topic. In my misspent... Read more

2013-10-06T15:45:23-04:00

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Another haunted story about Ravens locker room faith

Last updated on: October 6, 2013 at 3:45 pm By tmatt

At this point, fans who pay close attention to the Baltimore Ravens are contemplating a deep moral and religious question. No, I am not referring to the sins being committed on a weekly basis by the offensive linemen who are allegedly blocking for quarterback Joe Flacco. No, the bigger question is this: Who dominates the locker room, the party players associated with the recent “party bus” incident, with that strong supporting role played by a stripper named Sweet Pea, or... Read more

2013-10-06T22:30:11-04:00

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WSJ: Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah, come light the ‘Menurkey’

Last updated on: October 6, 2013 at 10:30 pm By Mark Kellner

To purists, Hanukkah, sometimes rendered Chanukah, is the red-headed stepchild of Jewish holy days: it’s not a liturgical event, per se, but it’s also, to borrow a phrase, “not chopped liver, either.” As Wikipedia summarizes it, Hanukkah is “the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Greeks of the 2nd century BCE.” Significant? Yes. A “holy day” on the order of Passover, Pentecost (“Shavuot” in Hebrew) or Yom Kippur? Not at all. In the face of what might be... Read more

2013-10-05T13:50:06-04:00

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When religious liberty clashes with gay rights

Last updated on: October 5, 2013 at 1:50 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

This was the headline on a Wall Street Journal story this week: Some Businesses Balk at Gay Weddings And the subhead: Photographers, Bakers Face Legal Challenges After Rejecting Jobs on Religious Grounds At this point, the Journal arrives at a critical juncture: the lede. The opening sentences will give a pretty clear idea where this story is headed: Will it be a sympathetic portrayal of gay couples denied basic civil rights? Or will it be a compassionate accounting of businesspeople forced... Read more

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2013-10-07T13:48:07-04:00

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Pod people: Deja vu on global persecution of Christians

Last updated on: October 7, 2013 at 1:48 pm By tmatt

As a rule, I don’t discuss the contents of one of my new Scripps Howard News Service columns here at GetReligion. However, from time to time I need to do so in order to describe some of the content of a new podcast in our GetReligion “Crossroads” series with radio host Todd Wilken & Co. This is one of those weeks. Click here to listen to the podcast. Meanwhile, this week’s column for Scripps grew out of all of the... Read more

2013-10-04T22:46:18-04:00

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Sarajevo census blues

Last updated on: October 4, 2013 at 10:46 pm By geoconger

“Context is king” is a catch phrase that summarizes the critique offered in many of my posts for Get Religion. The omission of background material or worse still the omission of “why” — why are these people in this story I am reading doing these things — blights many a fine article. A lack of context often leads to parochialism in reporting. When it comes to faith and morals issues, the New York Times writes its stories from the perspective... Read more

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2013-10-04T09:22:43-04:00

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Economist, New York Times tailor pope to their notions

Last updated on: October 4, 2013 at 9:22 am By Mark Kellner

One of the fascinating things about Pope Francis is the apparent mad rush among mainstream media scribes to recast the Bishop of Rome in their image, particularly if the image is in any way left-leaning, or, at the least, non-rightward-facing. After the conservative Blessed John Paul II and the conservative Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Jose Maria Bergoglio is now positioned in some media quarters as the Vatican’s version of the Barack Obama of 2008: At last, pontifical... Read more

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2013-10-03T11:54:16-04:00

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Tom Clancy: That Baltimore Catholic and his generic beliefs

Last updated on: October 3, 2013 at 11:54 am By tmatt

As I have mentioned many times, Baltimore culture is both historically Catholic and very liberal and the state of Maryland is used to having political leaders who are openly Catholic, yet clash frequently with the church hierarchy on issues of moral theology. Meanwhile, the newspaper that lands in my front yard just off the south edge of the Baltimore Beltway is, if anything, to the political and cultural left of the Maryland mainstream. Thus, it is safe to say that... Read more

2013-10-03T08:28:15-04:00

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Pew news: You don’t have to be religious to be Jewish

Last updated on: October 3, 2013 at 8:28 am By Mark Kellner

Readers (and bloggers) “of a certain age” will recall the famous advertising campaign for Levy’s “real Jewish Rye” bread showing photos of people who are distinctly non-Jewish enjoying a sandwich on the famous bread. Now, a study from the Pew Forum On Religion & Public Life — reportedly the first major Jewish demographic survey in more than a decade — reveals that many American Jews feel people don’t have to be, well, religiously oriented to be Jewish. Several religion reporters were... Read more

2013-10-02T14:53:36-04:00

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Kleenex alert: Tale of tragedy, irony and Christianity

Last updated on: October 2, 2013 at 2:53 pm By Tamie Ross

It’s not every day that an obituary of a non-celebrity appears above the fold on a major daily newspaper’s front page. Rarer still is the mention, nay prominence, of a faith story unfolding within. Bryan Marquard, veteran obit writer for the Boston Globe, no doubt did a double take when news of a young couple dying within 46 hours of each other crossed his desk. Marquard began making phone calls, and the result is a poignant piece about life, love and mortality... Read more

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