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July 2014

July 30, 2014

Members mourn Atlanta church; why don’t they talk?

When a congregation has to leave its church building, it's like moving away from home....

July 22, 2014

Pod people: Are all political liberals also on moral left?

Every now and then, Issues, Etc., host Todd Wilken take and I off in one...

July 17, 2014

Are evangelicals America’s only real moral conservatives?

Nearly a decade ago, the conservative Weekly Standard ran a very newsy story on its...

July 03, 2014

Attention editors: Is there a ‘Little Sisters’ case in your area?

While the post-Hobby Lobby meltdown continues on the cultural and journalistic left -- this New...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

ESPN offers faith-free version of Isaiah Austin’s testimony

If you care about what is happening in modern, multi-platform journalism then you have to...

June 26, 2014

Pod people: Sometimes editors really need to do the math

I have never been much of a math guy, but sometimes you have to see...

June 20, 2014

The Atlantic: Apparently, ‘evangelical’ now equals ‘cult’

Veteran GetReligion readers will know that, every year or two, there is some kind of...

June 19, 2014

All Catholics oppose death penalty and all Baptists favor it?

In the wake of the nation's first executions since Oklahoma's botched lethal injection, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...

June 15, 2014

A touching Father’s Day profile from down in Georgia

It's Father's Day (and I need a nap after the special lunch my wife made),...

June 09, 2014

Which religions favor separation of church and state?

LISA ASKS: Do all religions teach separation between church and state? If not, which...

May 2014

May 21, 2014

WPost probes hot debate on the banks of River Jordan

I have crossed the Jordan River twice in my life and both times the experience...

May 21, 2014

The Atlantic finds new sect: Southern Baptist Convention

Maybe someone at The Atlantic was trying to be clever or just writing too fast....

May 20, 2014

Baptists ‘unofficially’ changing doctrine on homosexuality?

Southern Baptist leaders are seeking a "softer approach on homosexuality," reports National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."...

May 17, 2014

About that prophetic USA Today story grilling Mark Jackson

It's time for a quick trip into my very large folder of GetReligion guilt, that...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Falwell’s 2014 Liberty: ‘Fundamentalist Baptist’ university?

Here at GetReligion, the "F-word" always catches our attention. I'm referring, of course, to fundamentalist. It's...

April 25, 2014

AP sticks it to Mississippi religious freedom law

Earlier this month, I wrote a post titled "Via AP, a tasty piece on a same-sex...

April 24, 2014

More on politics, sin and Louisiana’s kissing congressman

For anyone unfamiliar with Rep. Vance McAllister, he's a Louisiana congressman who ran on a...

April 23, 2014

Some compelling religion stories from Easter front pages

Fittingly, stories of rebirth and renewal made their way to many newspaper front pages on...

April 22, 2014

Weed in Denver, but Easter news on other front pages

If you live in the Mile High City (no pun intended), you woke up Sunday...

April 20, 2014

Glorious Pascha! The Baltimore Sun gets the key parts right

I keep saying this year after year, but it's true. One of the greatest challenges...

April 09, 2014

Washington mudslide disaster: the heart of the matter

More than two weeks after the horrendous mudslide in Oso, Wash., news coverage is taking...

April 05, 2014

Final Four ghosts in long story on Kentucky’s Julius Randle

While in Arlington, Texas, on Monday for my beloved Rangers' season opener at the newly...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

World Vision, donors, scripture and ‘online speculation’

It took a few days, but the newspaper of record has now produced a solid...

March 19, 2014

Do journalists need to crank up the Phelps vitriol? Really?

At this point, it's pretty clear that coverage of the demise of the Rev. Fred...

March 13, 2014

Pod people: There really are two sides to every story, folks

The stories we critique here at GetReligion usually fall into one of two categories. First...

March 13, 2014

Concerning all those angry white married men in pews

It's mid-term election time, which means that it's time, once again, for the mainstream press...

March 10, 2014

After more bullets in Baltimore: ‘Why couldn’t God stop this?’

Long ago, I was talking to an inner-city pastor (a priest, actually) in Denver who...

March 07, 2014

One thing wrong with that ‘give up one thing for Lent’ thing

I don't know precisely when it happened, but somewhere during the past decade or two...

March 07, 2014

Kentucky church gun giveaway story shoots straight

Churches offering free items, services or even doughnuts to their neighbors isn't news. When they...

March 06, 2014

AP finally spikes infamous Nazi Christian Youth (not) photo

It took a while, but the final shoe dropped the other day in the mysterious...