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February 29, 2008 GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
McCain Faces Fire Over Minister's Views
Jeff Greenfield/CBS News (02/29/2008)
Today, it was Republican frontrunner John McCain's turn to answer mounting questions about
one of his supporters, Rev. John Hagee, a San Antonio pastor with a worldwide broadcast
ministry. Hagee has offered some highly provocative views on a variety of subjects.
Fliers play up Obama's faith
Gromer Jeffers Jr./Dallas Morning News (02/29/2008)
Barack Obama has circulated thousands of pieces of campaign literature throughout Texas
that touts his religious credentials. Such fliers were jammed in doorways throughout the
Dallas area Wednesday, coinciding with his campaign appearance in Duncanville.
Anti-Muslim sentiment surfaces in attacks on Obama
Michael Conlon/Reuters (02/29/2008)
CHICAGO - The controversy caused by a photograph of Democratic presidential hopeful
Barack Obama dressed in turban-topped African garb points to deeper anti-Muslim sentiment
in U.S. society, some observers believe.
POLLS
Religion in the News
Eric Gorski/Associated Press (02/29/2008: ap.google.com)
If American religion is a spiritual shopping center, denominations that once dominated the
market are in danger of being boarded up. A major survey of 35,000 Americans released this
week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life confirms the long-held belief that
denominational loyalty is fraying — and those with much at stake include both mainline
Protestant and evangelical churches. Yet to some observers, woven into the gloomy numbers
is a roadmap for survival if not success if denominations get more nimble and creative
while not compromising core beliefs.
DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE
Pleas for Tickets to Papal Mass Inundate Archdiocese
Jacqueline L. Salmon and Michelle Boorstein/Washington Post (02/29/2008)
With seven weeks until Pope Benedict XVI lands in Washington, the hunt is on for one of the hottest tickets of the year: to the Mass he will offer at Nationals Park on April 17.
DENOMINATIONS
Denomination seeks jump-start through Obama
David Briggs/Plain Dealer (02/28/2008)
He is a dynamic, charismatic leader who has transcended racial and ethnic divisions to
capture the imagination of the nation's youth. For the Cleveland-based United Church of
Christ, a graying denomination that has lost more than 40 percent of its members since the
1960s, Barack Obama is a godsend.
Obama's UCC membership could be thorny issue
David Briggs/Plain Dealer (02/28/2008)
Barack Obama is turning Cleveland into the center of the religious struggle for the hearts
and minds of voters in the 2008 presidential race.
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