Religion

NYT's Keller Admits 'Late to Rev. Wright' in 2008, But Claims Paper Handled Story Well

New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller thinks the Times eventually did a good job covering Obama's Rev. Wright problem: "Yes, Dems should be asked about their faith (and influences) too. We ...

Bill Keller Questions Faith of G.O.P. Candidates, Compares Belief in God to Belief in Aliens

Bill Keller questions the faith of top Republican candidates, after ignoring Obama's preacher problem during the 2008 campaign. "Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are Mormons, a faith that many ...

No Longer Fit to Print: Abramson's Religious Worship of the Times

Incoming Executive Editor Jill Abramson's described her life-long religious love for the Times to a reporter for the paper: "In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The ...

NYT Respects Lefty Catholic Attack on Boehner, But Obama Abortion Protests 'High-Pitched Indignation,' 'Not Even Catholic'

Double standard: Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein treats liberal Catholics with respect as they attack Speaker John Boehner on the eve of his speech at the Catholic University of America: ...

The Times Marks Easter In Its Own Way: Gay Activism

Uh, hooray? Austin Considine: "As the tranquil tones of church bells and choirs usher in another Easter Sunday, you may hear stirrings of controversy beneath those sounds - set to the pounding of ...

The Atheist Mormon-Trashing Musical

Perpetual immaturity from the creators of "South Park."

Another Times Attack on an Opponent of Radical Islam

Reporter Laurie Goodstein attacks Brigitte Gabriel, an opponent of radical Islam, on Tuesday's front page: "She presents a portrait of Islam so thoroughly bent on destruction and domination that ...

Moral Equivalency Watch in Coverage of Deadly Church Bombing in Egypt

A bombing "prompted concerns that national cohesion was being threatened by the spread of religious extremism among Muslims and Christians," according to a front-page story by Michael Slackman, ...

Nina Totenberg: 'I Was At - Forgive the Expression - a Christmas Party...'

"I was at ' forgive the expression ' a Christmas party," NPR reporter Nina Totenberg interjected on Inside Washington in the weekend's oddest cautionary separation from a common description for a ...
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