So if the primaries were a drinking game…Oh, forget it. Mitt Romney looks solid in Arizona today but his home state of Michigan is getting uncomfortably tight.
Heck, even some Michigan Democrats like Rick Santorum. (“Newt who?” you may be asking at this point.)
Interestingly, the GOP started out anti-Mormon. But that was then. Right?
On the plus side for Romney, Santorum may have a “pastor problem,” if you think the pastor warming up your crowd by saying Mitt Romney is not a Christian is a problem. Hard to tell in Michigan.
And “Mullah Rick” is getting hammered by pundits and even fellow GOPers. Which also may work for him in Michigan.
Religious leaders also push back on Santorum's idea of college as a faith wasteland, and Mark Silk deconstructs Santorum on JFK.
Contraception or religious freedom? The debate goes on, and both sides eye potential gains.
Remember the Catholic priest in Illinois who got fired for ad-libbing at Mass? More improv: he is rescinding his resignation.
The pope’s brother has a “tell-all,” of sorts – a book about growing up as the older sibling of the future Benedict XVI. But Georg Ratzinger is also a priest, so he’s not dishing dirt. Just sweet tales, like his brother Joseph’s childhood love of teddy bears, and his exclamation as a 4-year-old: “I'll be a cardinal someday!”
Don’t sell yourself short, Joey.
Cuba has “no shopping list” for the pope’s visit there next month, and Castro isn’t on the schedule – or apparently converting – just yet.
Who says mainline Protestantism is dead? It keeps spawning new denominations.
The problem for the Episcopal Church, at least in Washington, is somewhat different: too many clergy, not enough laity. So they’ve installed “call waiting.”
Verizon is dropping Bridges TV, a pioneering television network that seeks to challenge stereotypes of Muslims and create understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Unkind cuts: a debate over Medicaid cuts for circumcisions sparks a debate in Colorado and elsewhere.
And an Orthodox Jewish high school in Texas will have to forfeit its game in the state basketball semifinals because the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools said it could not reschedule the Friday night game to avoid playing on the Sabbath.
If you want an antidote to that tale, read this one about a Division III college hoops game and a special player and a special moment. Really, just read it.
Finally, wonder what folks are giving up for Lent? And what that word cloud above is? Christianity Today connects the dots.
David Gibson
