19 August 2004 Daily Links

August 19, 2004
Everyone likes a winner: Bush has been using images of the Iraqi soccer team in his advertising and inserting...
Feature

Bush's Catholic Deal

August 19, 2004
UPDATE: The National Catholic Reporter has just posted the article that sparked the Deal Hudson affair — even before it was...

19 August 2004 Daily Links

August 19, 2004
Wash Post headline gets it wrong: Melanie Mattson of Just a Bump in the Beltway calls The Revealer‘s attention to a story in today’s paper...

On a Shaky Wall

August 17, 2004
By Jeff Sharlet Beacon Press has just published a useful little volume for journalists on the God beat: The Separation...

17 August 2004 Daily Links

August 17, 2004
The Nashville Tennessean is still looking for the right candidate to fill its religion reporter’s job, vacated when Brian Lewis...

16 August 2004 Daily Links

August 16, 2004
NPR reports on the controversial new “Buddha Bar” of Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, the name of which sparked a letter-writing campaign...
Review

Fragmented Journalism

August 16, 2004
Pamela Constable’s Fragments of Grace is a better illustration than diagnosis of what’s wrong with foreign religion reporting. Reviewed by Jeff Sharlet...

Bible Porn

August 16, 2004
Erik Hanson: “Once, when I was eight, I knelt down at my bed alongside my mother, admitted I was...

15 August 2004 Daily Links

August 15, 2004
The President says he’s a “soldier of God.” His inspiration is Jesus. And he’s fighting the “emperor of evil.”...

13 August 2004 Daily Links

August 13, 2004
Pregnant by Jesus? The BBC reports that one of Britain’s fastest growing churches is claiming a number of “miracle babies”...

12 August 2004 Daily Links

August 12, 2004
The Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf has had a dual historical role as both holy shrine and rallying point...

And the Devil Likes Schlitz

August 11, 2004
God apparently prefers Coors. Peter Coors, that is, the brewery heir who won yesterday’s Republican primary for the open...

11 August 2004 Daily Links

August 11, 2004
Every now and then you come across a prayer that is so crazy, so ecstatic, so much in love...

God Willing?

August 10, 2004
David Domke, University of Washington professor and author of the just-released book, God Willing?: Political Fundamentalism in the White House,...

10 August 2004 Daily Links

August 10, 2004
Veli-Matti Karkkainen, a Finnish theologian who has taught at Fuller Theological Seminary, the United States’ largest interdenominational seminary, since...
Feature

Raving Atheism

August 9, 2004
The 10th entry in “The ‘R’ Word,” The Revealer’s ongoing forum on what the campaign might look like if covered...

They Have What to Say?

August 9, 2004
Hamodia, America’s only English-language Jewish daily, was conceived as an antidote to mainstream press. For Stephen Vider, writing at Nextbook, it...

9 August 2004 Daily Links

August 9, 2004
Blogging from Baghdad: “I always love passing by the churches. It gives me a momentary sense that everything must...

07 August 2004 Daily Links

August 7, 2004
Why Bush will win: “Bush isn’t a fire-and-brimstone preacher, talking about sinners in the hands of an angry God. He’s...

06 August 2004 Daily Links

August 6, 2004
Christianity Today’s Steven Gertz draws attention to another bill currently before the Senate, overlooked as attention focused on the Federal...

05 August 2004 Daily Links

August 5, 2004
BP News, the publication of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the anti-abortion LifeSite gleefully pick up the same quote from Julia Duin’s article...

04 August 2004 Daily Links

August 4, 2004
Vijay Dutt of the U.K.’s Hindustan Times reports that some “militant” Muslim doctors in inner-city areas with large ethnic population, such as...

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