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October 2013

October 21, 2013

Is it time for the old Mainline churches to shed that label?

BOBBY ASKS: Who are the “Mainline” Protestants today? DOUGLAS LIKEWISE ASKS: (Paraphrasing) What do we...

October 13, 2013

Readers get hot and bothered about ‘Sin Burger’ reports

GetReligion is almost a decade old and, from the very beginning, many readers have struggled...

October 10, 2013

WWROD? Hang out with the GetReligionistas team

Ask any religion-news professional to list the top reporters on the beat in the late...

October 07, 2013

So long, GetReligion

It was about eight years ago exactly when I surprised Terry Mattingly by shouting his...

October 01, 2013

A more graceful Ross joins GetReligion crew

Some folks get annoyed when they read a news story with holes, a piece with...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Saith EEE: The business of those religion-beat cuts

The other day I received an email from a former GetReligion colleague, the Rev. Elizabeth...

September 26, 2013

Got news? Pope Francis speaks — this time the media blink

It's safe to assume that, at this moment in time, Pope Francis is a rock...

September 24, 2013

More personnel changes on the Godbeat

Here at GetReligion, we don't generally report the news. We critique media coverage of the...

September 19, 2013

Do religious readers really want quality religion coverage?

It has been awhile since our own Bobby Ross, Jr., quoted that laugh-to-keep-from-crying tweet by...

September 16, 2013

Advent of a GetReligion scribe: Mark Kellner climbs aboard

Greetings, I am Mark Kellner, and right now you can call me the "new kid"...

September 10, 2013

Et tu, Tim? Townsend latest to leave the Godbeat (updated)

Speaking of Ch-ch-ch-ch Changes ... In the last few weeks, we've highlighted the departures of...

September 09, 2013

Ch-ch-ch-ch Changes again, here in GetReligion land

All together now, GetReligion readers. Strange fascination, fascinating me Changes are taking the pace I'm...

September 06, 2013

Imagine Pope Francis; help artists win prizes

So, unless you have spent quite a bit of time on another planet in recent...

August 2013

August 31, 2013

Noooooooooooo!!! Godbeat losing a superstar

It's official: I'm leaving Post-Gazette 9/5 to be communications director for #Catholic @diopitt Thanks for...

August 22, 2013

So, is Benedict XVI lying about motives for his retirement?

So let's say that The Telegraph prints a story from its Rome bureau about the...

August 21, 2013

Interesting Rowan Williams apology: And important, too

Let us return, for a moment, to that interesting quote the other day from the...

August 19, 2013

Godbeat losing one of its best and brightest

Usually, we critique religion news here at GetReligion. Occasionally, we report on significant developments on...

July 2013

July 19, 2013

Intrigue in the wide, wide world of the religion-news beat?

For several days now, I have been very curious about an item related to mainstream...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Pod people: Have many Americans tuned out the press?

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage, I wrote two...

June 17, 2013

Chicago photographer waits for new assignment from God

So, who has been following the drama that unfolded early this month up in Chicago,...

June 14, 2013

It’s summertime, and GetReligionista life is complicated

Yes, it's summertime (sing along with the voice of my teen years in Port Arthur,...

May 2013

May 17, 2013

One, two, trend: Godbeat pros changing jobs!

Here at GetReligion, we focus mainly on critiquing the mass media's coverage of religion news....

May 06, 2013

Problems with today’s press? Religion is No. 1

After a busy Pascha weekend, I need to jump back into the tmatt file of...

May 01, 2013

Joe Carter: From GetReligion reader to scribe

Having been a reader and fan of GetReligion, I’m thrilled and honored to be joining...

April 2013

April 17, 2013

On Sarah Kliff’s mea culpa on Gosnell (a national story)

If you have been on Twitter in the past week or so, you probably know...

April 11, 2013

Some familiar religion-news questions, after 25 years

What are the odds? Several years ago, I realized that I was not really sure...

April 08, 2013

Any reporters out there still studying Pope Francis?

This whole GetReligion operation, as regular readers know, exists to look at the good and...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Render unto Google the things which are Google’s …

First of all, let me state right up front that it is hard to do...

March 30, 2013

So what was Pope Francis up to on Holy Thursday?

So, this pope vs. pope theme has been building, in mainstream coverage, during the amazing...

March 15, 2013

WWROD: Is bad religion-news coverage bad for news biz?

Warning to readers: The following post is blatantly self-serving and includes flattering remarks about the...