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February 2013

February 08, 2013

Escape from Westboro Baptist, for some reason or another

Let's face it, the edgy folks at the Westboro Baptist Church are not easy to...

February 07, 2013

Boy Scouts, Mormons and CNN’s tabloid-style ‘reporting’

Let's face it: Most of the mainstream media coverage of the Boy Scouts of America's...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Gays, Boy Scouts and the religion angle

I've been swamped with my regular job the last few days, so I have not...

January 28, 2013

Savvy PR firm scores NYTimes coup against March For Life

We've received quite a few complaints about the religion angle the New York Times chose...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

Bear QB after RGIII keeps the vague faith

As we roll through the semi-holy football season of minor bowls, I am happy to...

December 19, 2012

Bring your swords, and guns, to church

Back in my high school days, my family attended a Church of Christ in Fort...

December 15, 2012

Pod people: Forgiveness is such a simple word

Forgiveness is such a simple word But it's so hard to do when you've been...

December 10, 2012

The Southern Baptists’ scarlet ‘A’

Let's say your church's pastor is accused of molesting at least four teenage girls. Let's...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

Faith, family and football for Ole Miss walk-on

When his 37-year-old mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, a college football star steps up...

November 25, 2012

Times team laughs at all those bitter Texans

Since I grew up in a solidly Baylor family, I have always understood why the...

November 22, 2012

Jack Taylor’s 138-point game and the Gospel of Matthew

Even though I'm not a big basketball fan, I've had a lot of fun with...

November 19, 2012

CNN on the superstar Stanleys: The ties that blind

Suffice it to say that I started working my way onto the religion-news beat in...

November 15, 2012

Got news? Obama as Antichrist prequel draws silence

Man oh man do I feel conflicted writing this post. Let me state, right up...

November 13, 2012

Red-state American in her natural habitat

I gotta admit: Just a few sentences into this Washington Post feature on post-election Red America...

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 18, 2012

Weed is a beautiful gift from God

There is something about writing about marijuana that gets reporters a bit, well, dopey. You...

October 17, 2012

On sex: Smart black Christians vs. you know who

Brace yourselves, GetReligion readers. I am about to do something shocking. I would like to...

October 11, 2012

Baylor grad pushes app for cheaters?

A long, long time ago, I was a journalism major at Baylor University, which, as...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Meanwhile, back at AP’s sausage factory

On Thursday, I highlighted a fine piece of journalism produced by The Associated Press' filet...

September 23, 2012

Americans underestimate Protestant population

A few months ago we looked at a survey that showed that the vast majority...

September 21, 2012

The Boy They Couldn’t Kill

Go read Sports Illustrated's "The Boy They Couldn't Kill." It is far and away the...

September 20, 2012

LATimes on Chick-fil-A: Where’s the journalism?

A long, long, time ago -- almost a decade, in fact -- there was a...

September 13, 2012

NPR on Bible-loving racists in Ohio River Valley

To the frustration of many mainstream reporters, far too many blue-collar Americans simply refuse to...

September 12, 2012

Got news? Can evangelicals vote for a Mormon?

I joined Stephen Mansfield and Richard Mouw in answering the provocative question "Is There Anything Wrong...