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2013-08-22T11:15:30-04:00

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The heroism of Antoinette Tuff

Last updated on: August 22, 2013 at 11:15 am By mollie

A reader sent along a link to a story about an amazing woman who talked down a gunman at an Atlanta-area elementary school. Her name is Antoinette Tuff and the full 9-1-1 call she made — which includes her conversation with the gunman — is gripping. You can hear it from CNN here. Her courage is inspiring and her love for her neighbors is just beautiful. She talks about her own hardships to help him see that he’s not alone... Read more

2013-08-21T17:59:37-04:00

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Interesting Rowan Williams apology: And important, too

Last updated on: August 21, 2013 at 5:59 pm By tmatt

Let us return, for a moment, to that interesting quote the other day from the former Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams. You may recall that he said, concerning public debates in the West about religion: “Persecution is not being made to feel mildly uncomfortable. I am always very uneasy when people sometimes in this country or the United States talk about persecution of Christians or rather believers. “I think we are made to feel uncomfortable at times.... Read more

2013-08-21T12:53:13-04:00

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Should CNN editor accept religious liberty award?

Last updated on: August 21, 2013 at 12:53 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

A Religion Dispatches blog post this week noted that CNN Godbeat pro Eric Marrapodi will receive the first annual Vine & Fig Tree Award for excellence in reporting on religious liberty issues. The post questioned whether Marrapodi (an often-praised journalist here at GetReligion) should accept the award from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty: According to Time Warner’s Standards of Business Conduct (CNN is a Time Warner subsidiary), employees are to avoid conflicts of interest. While they do not address the particulars of journalists being... Read more

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2013-08-21T09:55:53-04:00

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God works through means: a story

Last updated on: August 21, 2013 at 9:55 am By mollie

I’m not sure if we looked at the media coverage of the “miracle priest” in Missouri. If you’re unfamiliar with the story, here’s an early Associated Press account of how a “mysterious priest” “suddenly appeared” and prayed over and anointed a badly injured car accident victim with oil. That piece is headlined “Priest comes out of nowhere to aid accident victim.” Here’s a News-Tribune (Jefferson City, Mo.) follow-up with more details. The initial coverage looked at how onlookers were looking... Read more

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2013-08-21T21:22:59-04:00

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LATimes sees the layers of threats against Copts in Egypt

Last updated on: August 21, 2013 at 9:22 pm By tmatt

The dominant story coming out of Egypt right now continues, and with good cause, to be the growing conflict between the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and the so-called “secular” coalition that is backing the nation’s military elites, a coalition that includes many mainstream Muslims, liberal secularists, Coptic Christians and members of other religious minorities. For the most part, this hellish conflict — which could grow into full civil war — is being portrayed as a fight between Islamism and secularism. However,... Read more

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2013-08-19T19:03:59-04:00

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Missing half of America’s changing ecumenical landscape

Last updated on: August 19, 2013 at 7:03 pm By tmatt

A long, long, long time ago I covered a press conference featuring leaders of the various bodies linked to the Colorado Council of Churches. The key was that the organization — in support of an essentially liberal political cause of some kind — was claiming that it spoke for the vast majority of the state’s churches. The problem was that, by the 1980s, the conversion of the Colorado Front Range into an evangelical hotbed (including evangelicals in many oldline Protestant... Read more

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2013-08-19T12:13:32-04:00

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AP badly flubs Catholic teaching

Last updated on: August 19, 2013 at 12:13 pm By mollie

The media’s obsession with sexualityism is somehow getting even more pronounced. We have a backlog of stories to look at. But here’s a quick example of how shoddy the coverage is, this time from the Associated Press: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to sign a bill Monday barring licensed therapists from trying to make gay minors straight. There are so many questions I have about this. So many questions not answered in this brief AP report. One might be... Read more

2013-08-19T11:29:11-04:00

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Godbeat losing one of its best and brightest

Last updated on: August 19, 2013 at 11:29 am By Bobby Ross Jr.

Usually, we critique religion news here at GetReligion. Occasionally, we report on significant developments on the Godbeat. This is one of those times, although — as lightning fast as news travels in the social media age — many of you probably already heard this. Bob Smietana, a regular GetReligion reader and commenter and the award-winning religion writer at The Tennessean, is leaving the secular news business. Here’s the note that Lisa Green, Bob’s editor, sent to the staff: He’s covered snake-handling... Read more

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2013-08-19T20:07:18-04:00

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Scapegoating Bishop James Tengatenga

Last updated on: August 19, 2013 at 8:07 pm By geoconger

Dartmouth College President Philip J. Hanlon’s decision to nix the appointment of Bishop James Tengatenga as dean for moral and spiritual life has sparked spirited commentary from left and right — and some solid reporting. An article in the Boston Globe entitled “Words on gays cost bishop post at Dartmouth” is a well sourced, balanced story that succinctly summarizes the issues at play. In other words, we are cheering for a solid story on a difficult subject that is often... Read more

2013-08-16T17:19:50-04:00

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What did Pope Tawadros say? When did he say it? (updated)

Last updated on: August 16, 2013 at 5:19 pm By tmatt

At the pivotal event announcing the fall of President Mohamed Morsi, a number of symbolic leaders stood with General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi in a coalition backing this action, following days of massive public protests dominated by young, mostly secular Egyptians. Yes, one of those leaders was Coptic Orthodox Tawadros II, who called the military takeover a “defining moment in the nation’s history.” Of course, Egypt’s grand imam, Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, also took part in that press conference. So did the... Read more

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