Religion used divide, mock in campaign ‘08 (The Daily Dispatch)
In 1961, after John F. Kennedy’s Catholic faith proved not to be an insurmountable barrier to the White House, Billy Graham predicted that religion would never again be such a divisive force in elections.
washingtonpost.com and Newsweeks On Faith Launches Women on Faith (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WASHINGTON----On Faith, the joint washingtonpost.com and Newsweek feature devoted to the intersection of religion and news, today launches an online reader discussion group on women and spirituality and values called “Women on Faith.”
Child deaths test faith-healing exemptions (MSNBC)
Three criminal cases have revived concerns about exemptions that most states grant to parents who rely on faith healing instead of doctors to treat sick children.
On Religion: Getting The Facts Wrong (The Morning News)
Richard Ostling has never gotten used to seeing journalists commit sins of omission and commission on the religion beat.
Religion accounted for 4 percent of election news coverage (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
Admittedly, there is likely some bias here. This is The God Blog. But I’m a bit surprised by the findings of a survey from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life that found that only 4 percent of election reporting involved religion—and the primary subject, attracting nearly a third of the coverage, was not how the candidates’ beliefs shaped their worldview but whether Barack Obama was a Muslim ...
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