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Synchronicity, tragedy and Mumbai
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Obama apocalypse (again)
Journalists are often impelled to indulge in navel-gazing at the ping of an incoming email. One topic we tend to chew on, like a cow masticating her cud, is: do we display bias? Our second favorite: are we as bad as those other guys?
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Old questions on news and "On Faith"
The new post by the Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc about the Obama family, National Episcopal Cathedral and the theological musings by the seeker-friendly agnostic Sally Quinn reminded me of something I have been meaning to do for some time now.
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E-evil
As far as I can tell, there is no faith, no religion, no hope and no positive sense of morality in the following story.
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WWW open Communion
So it seems there is “closed Communion,” “open Communion,” “open, open Communion” (Communion without baptism) and then there is “World Wide Web open Communion.”
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Bias, with no faith angle (maybe)
Trust me, I realize that there is no obvious religion angle in the now infamous opinion column by Michael S. Malone that ABC News dared to post on its website.
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Sit down; clasp box of tissues
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Ch-ch-ch-changes at GetReligion ?08
The other day, while I was meeting with a bunch of Godbeat pros at the Religion Newswriters Association (here and here for pieces of that), it hit me (ouch) that GetReligion is creeping up on the fifth anniversary of the day when Doug LeBlanc clicked “publish” and put the original test site online.
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Confessions of texting worshippers
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch‘s Tim Townsend had an amazing story on Tuesday that shatters any notion that the religion beat is only about stuffy theology or culture wars. The religion beat this week in St. Louis is about cell phone texting your pastor during his sermon and possibly having him respond before his sermon is over.
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