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2013-07-26T16:35:17-04:00

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News crisis: when people agree (Lutheran edition)

Last updated on: July 26, 2013 at 4:35 pm By mollie

I’m in St. Louis this week at the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s 65th regular convention. The convention was largely peaceful and unified. And where it wasn’t, the issues were extremely important but fairly unique to the LCMS. I keep thinking how difficult it is to cover a convention such as this. Religion reporter Tim Townsend, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was at the convention. He had a hilarious tweet the other day about the arcane language one must be familiar with... Read more

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2013-07-26T10:41:44-04:00

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NPR’s curiously biased quest for the historical Jesus

Last updated on: July 26, 2013 at 10:41 am By Joe Carter

Did you know that Jesus wasn’t really God? Despite what his disciples claim, he never believed he was the Messiah, much less God incarnate. He was a merely a Jewish revolutionary that was crucified by the Roman Empire and later deified (quite literally) by people who really didn’t know him. That’s not a new claim, of course, but it’s getting new attention because of a new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan. Many... Read more

2013-07-25T20:16:46-04:00

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Hearing Francis through the ears of politics

Last updated on: July 25, 2013 at 8:16 pm By geoconger

We believe only what we want to believe, George Orwell observed in 1945. “So far as I can see,” he wrote in the Partisan Review: [A]ll political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. … I believe that it is possible to be more objective than most of us are,... Read more

2013-07-25T10:58:21-04:00

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A sad note of Orthodox reality in Eastern Europe

Last updated on: July 25, 2013 at 10:58 am By tmatt

It’s impossible to know precisely what is happening inside the mind of a politician when he or she is taking part in a religious ritual, whether or not listeners are hearing the voice of a believer or that of a political realist who is skilled at watching national opinion polls. The Russians have a special term for this slice of life in our sinful, fallen world and, truth be told, some public leaders do deserve this label — “podsvechnik.” This... Read more

2013-07-24T15:07:30-04:00

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Did mainline churches lead or follow the culture?

Last updated on: July 24, 2013 at 3:07 pm By mollie

I love it when a good religion story gets people chatting. The New York Times has accomplished this with the publication of “A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered.” It’s a news story in the Books section of the paper and begins: For decades the dominant story of postwar American religious history has been the triumph of evangelical Christians. Beginning in the 1940s, the story goes, a rising tide of evangelicals began asserting their power and identity, ultimately... Read more

2013-07-24T10:38:14-04:00

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Uncovering part of those church modesty debates

Last updated on: July 24, 2013 at 10:38 am By tmatt

As I have mentioned many times here at GetReligion, Deacon Greg Kandra’s blog “The Deacon’s Bench” is must reading for anyone who is is seeking a rather light-hearted, but very newsy, look at what’s happening in Catholicism and in religious life in general. What we have here is a second-career Catholic clergyman, a permanent deacon, who in his previous career was a 26-year veteran with CBS News who won two Emmys, two Peabody Awards, etc., etc. This guy knows church... Read more

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2013-07-23T13:33:18-04:00

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Pope trip: Time to play ‘spot the political sound bite’

Last updated on: July 23, 2013 at 1:33 pm By tmatt

The pope is abroad. This means, of course, that it is time to look at the papal texts — Vatican site here — and play a mainstream media game that can accurately be called “spot the political sound bite.” The key to this game is that, no matter why the pope is traveling to a particular region and speaking to a particular audience, it must be assumed that the lasting impact of his trip will be related to real life... Read more

2013-07-23T12:13:52-04:00

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AP keeps on standing with Wendy

Last updated on: July 23, 2013 at 12:13 pm By mollie

On the Planned Parenthood site is the headline pictured here about Rick Perry signing a new in Texas: “Texas Governor Rick Perry signed an abortion ban that threatens to shut down dozens of health centers and deny women access to basic care.” This is what you’d expect from Planned Parenthood, the country’s largest abortion provider, having killed some 300,000 unborn children last year alone. The organization is well loved by the majority of professionals in the mainstream news media and... Read more

2013-07-23T10:34:36-04:00

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Pod people: Indulgences & WYD in The Guardian

Last updated on: July 23, 2013 at 10:34 am By geoconger

Coverage in The Guardian, the Catholic doctrine of purgatory and the editorial board of The New York Times were the targets of my wit on last week’s GetReligion podcast. Crossroads host Todd Wilkens and I discussed the media coverage of the Vatican’s announcement that those who followed Pope Francis’ tweets from the World Youth Day celebrations in Brazil would be granted an indulgence. My colleague M.Z. Hemingway looked at this topic last week in a post entitled “Media: Pope says... Read more

2013-07-22T18:07:31-04:00

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The controversial mind and Lebanese soul of Helen Thomas

Last updated on: July 22, 2013 at 6:07 pm By tmatt

As I have mentioned before here at GetReligion, at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks I was a member of a largely Lebanese and Syrian Orthodox parish in West Palm Beach, Fla. Our priest, as an Arab Christian, volunteered to be a grief counselor at the still-smoking ruins of the World Trade Center. A few members of the parish had their grandchildren punched around on school playgrounds because they were Arabs, even with their gold baptism crosses hanging around... Read more

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