The Detroit News and Baltimore Sun recently produced two shockingly non-news worthy articles about the role or religion in this 2008 presidential election.
Reporting stuff we already know
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Palin: evangelical stereotype buster
Religion reporter Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette produced a compelling and original article on the view evangelical women have on Palin as both a role model and a pulverizer of long-standing stereotypes. Rodgers mixes hard data from sources such as polls with softer anecdotes from a wide variety of perspectives that paint a narrative reflecting many of the discussions going on within the broad area of Christian evangelicalism.
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Blessing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Baseball fans enjoying the evened-up World Series will appreciate this article on the success of the “Devil-less Tamp Bay Rays” by Rachel Zoll of the Associated Press.
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Judging God v. Mammon
Could the Sunday article in The Washington Post‘s Style section on families turning from money to faith have been told without mentioning religion at all?
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Palin and the born-again Baldwin
The Associated Press television writer David Bauder deserves credit for catching the somewhat subtle religion ghost in one of the two Saturday Night Live skits involving Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Faith-based hope in tonight's debate
This season’s presidential election debates have been something of a letdown from a variety of perspectives. One area is a lack of discussion about religion. Feel free to disagree, but I believe that one’s religion informs a person’s public policy to varying degrees.
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God looks on
Earlier today I was pondering the differences between the 2008 presidential election and the 2000 presidential election. Religion and religious issues were a big deal in 2000. Also different in 2000 was the fact that the nation’s economy wasn’t completely tanking, and the country wasn’t involved in two major wars thousands of miles from home. In 2004, the country was at war, but the economy was relatively stable, at least it appeared to be. Again, religion was a significant part of the national conversation, particularly after the election.
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Another debate without much religion
The big issue in tonight’s debate was the economy yet again (with foreign policy as the side dish). The closest the candidates came to discussing issues of morality or faith was both candidates’ criticism of Wall Street for corporate excess and greed and McCain’s frequent calls for faith in the American people.
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The president and the Supreme Conscience
Three major American newspapers published articles in the last two days on the significance of the president’s power to appoint Supreme Court justices and how that significance is impacting, or not impacting, the current presidential election. The underlying issue these articles attempt to highlight is the power the Supreme Court has in shaping the lives of Americans and how people often forget that when they consider for whom they will vote.
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