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September 2013

September 17, 2013

Pope not Catholic reports The Independent

The Independent is reporting that Pope Francis is a heretic. More precisely The Independent has...

September 12, 2013

Dawkins talks 2.0, and Anglicans just can’t catch a break

There he goes, there he goes again. At the moment, the Rt. anti-Rev. Richard Dawkins...

September 10, 2013

And now, a newsworthy word from the Rt. anti-Rev. Dawkins

First things first. Wait just a minute: Richard Dawkins said what?!? By way of a...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Concerning theological Swiss Army knives (think chaplains)

In the world of church-state studies, few puzzles are as tough to crack as those...

July 05, 2013

Why atheists who pray should still be called atheists

What do you call someone who reads the Bible, attends church, prays daily, and believes...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

Godless congregations copying Christian churches

Every year, approximately 4,000 new churches are started in the U.S. Out of that number,...

June 10, 2013

Is the ‘New Evangelization’ a laughing matter?

In America there are two career fields that have a disproportionate number of agnostics and...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

Yes, Pope Francis said: All are ‘redeemed!’ Is that news?

Let's start with the actual words spoken by Pope Francis, in his much quoted, and...

May 09, 2013

O ye gods! WPost blazes trail in AP heresy (updated)

A reading, according to the Stylebook of the Associated Press. Let us attend. gods and...

May 03, 2013

Media treatment of Mikey Weinstein under scrutiny

Earlier today I mentioned some questions I have about this crazy "court-martial" story that blew...

May 03, 2013

I share, you evangelize, they proselytize

Defense Dept. say proselytism is banned but evangelism is ok (and no one's getting court...

April 2013

April 03, 2013

WWROD: So is atheism a belief system or not?

It's time for another GetReligion visit to the online domain of the Ridgewood Religion Guy,...

March 2013

March 23, 2013

Francis coverage unfair to atheists?

And now for something completely different in the coverage of the election of Pope Francis...

January 2013

January 08, 2013

Concerning the new Stanford chaplain for campus atheists

Once upon a time, some of the best church-state minds in American life went toe...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

The nones on the bus

This week the Pew folks came out with a large Global Religious Landscape report. It's...

December 19, 2012

Christians are numerous. What’s their problem?

Yesterday, Pew came out with a new "Global Religious Landscape" report. Much of the media...

December 16, 2012

Not all ‘nones’ are atheists

In England and Wales, there were 37.3 million Christians in 2001, representing 72 percent of...

December 07, 2012

West Point cadet quits, citing religion

I've long been fascinated by stories about religious practice at the service academies. My brother...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Accurate Holiday wars update from Santa Monica!

Oh my! We may have a Nativity Lent miracle on our hands! Trust me that...

November 17, 2012

Pod people: Red America and Bible Belt atheists

On the latest Issues, Etc. podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discuss my recent post on a Washington Post story...

November 10, 2012

When Bible Belt atheists go to church

A church service for atheists? Really!? Here in my home own state of Oklahoma, that's...

November 08, 2012

Which religious group should be blamed for the election results?

Well, everyone, we made it through another presidential campaign year! Congratulations to the winners and...

November 07, 2012

The day after: The prophet John Green, revisited

It should be a quiet day on the religion-beat front, in the wake of yesterday's...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

What has God got to do with drones?

"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,"a United States major said today....

October 16, 2012

A non-journalistic flight to heaven and back

In the past week of so, I have received a number of requests for a...

October 11, 2012

ABC on Jesus the sky pixie

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live! These words close Vladimir Mayakovsky’s 1924 poem "Vladimir...

October 09, 2012

Some religious denigration is better than others

Back when the Obama administration was still claiming that they believed the assassination of the...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

How should the Godbeat be funded?

It's no secret that times are tough for journalism. We keep seeing newspapers laying off...