Probing the apocalypse in rural Michigan

Terry Mattingly April 6th, 2010

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The headline on the MSNBC version of an Associated Press report out of Michigan was blunt:

Christian militia target of FBI raids?

As you would expect, the top of the story backed that up.

ADRIAN, Mich. - The FBI said … that agents conducted weekend raids in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and arrested at least three people, and a militia leader in Michigan said the target of at least one of the raids was a Christian militia group. …

Michael Lackomar, a spokesman … (Read More)

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Haitian voices: God and the quake

Terry Mattingly January 27th, 2010

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So far, nothing I have seen coming out of Haiti has changed my mind about how journalists should approach the basic "theodicy" story.

I've said it several times already (click here and then here), I am really not that interested in what American religious broadcasters or even articulate American academics have to say about the role that God or the spirits did or didn't play in causing the hellish earthquake that rocked Port-au-Prince and the surround … (Read More)

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