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What are the next big religion stories?

By John Dart

            Stewart M. Hoover, a noted journalism and communications professor who follows religion news reporting, offers his guess on what the top three “emerging” religion stories will be in coming months. Hoover, who teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, suggests the following:

            — The disappointment of the religious right after the Republican loss of control over the U.S. Senate and House in the November 7 elections. “Did their influence reach a high water mark?” Hoover asks. The flip side of that question, he adds, is how well the faith-related campaigns of progressive religious groups will fare.

What do I say now?

By James Howell

What do I say now? As a pastor, I’ve written and spoken against the war since before the first cruise missile strike. I said that Iraq would be plunged into chaos, that the disconnect between 9/11 and Saddam Hussein would finally become evident to the public, that vaunting ourselves above the U.N. would shred international goodwill and that the economy would hit the skids. Most of my ink was spent on warning that Jesus would not be pleased. Back then I wrote, with total sincerity, that I hoped I would turn out to be wrong. 

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