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October 2013

October 06, 2013

Another haunted story about Ravens locker room faith

At this point, fans who pay close attention to the Baltimore Ravens are contemplating a...

October 04, 2013

Pod people: Deja vu on global persecution of Christians

As a rule, I don't discuss the contents of one of my new Scripps Howard...

October 03, 2013

Tom Clancy: That Baltimore Catholic and his generic beliefs

As I have mentioned many times, Baltimore culture is both historically Catholic and very liberal...

September 2013

September 11, 2013

Pod people: How not to write an attack piece

On one long winter workday in camp, as I was lugging a wheelbarrow together with...

August 2013

August 06, 2013

USA Today offers faith-free look at meditation, stress

Journalists who try to cover the life and teachings of Deepak Chopra always face the...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Snickering at FoxNews while getting duped by ‘Zealot’ author

Many of us who came of age during the birth of New Media are reflexively...

July 27, 2013

NYT front page discovers the most popular Bible app

Hey, guess what? If you want to read the Bible online, there's an app for...

July 26, 2013

NPR’s curiously biased quest for the historical Jesus

Did you know that Jesus wasn't really God? Despite what his disciples claim, he never...

June 2013

June 02, 2013

The theology in all those Father Greeley sex scenes

Much like his friend (historian, not theologian) Martin Marty, the prominent sociologist (not theologian) Father...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Pod people: Presby-speak again

The meaningless drivel that passes for public language these days was the major theme of my...

May 30, 2013

The big questions facing that out gay Catholic priest

It is my experience, through my decades on the religion beat, that liberal Catholics genuinely...

May 27, 2013

Gosh! Finding meaning in great Russian literature?

I spent most of last week on the other side of the planet (a Media...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

Inside the History Channel’s epic TV miniseries ‘The Bible’

This is one of those GetReligion follow-up posts where we basically say, "See, was that...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

What, precisely, makes Stephenie Meyer so important? (updated)

I need some help, folks. My goal is to find that classic Washington Post piece...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

WWROD: When reporters fail to get religion ….

A quick online confession: Yes, I am "Terry in D.C." You see, while I am...

December 28, 2012

Jesus of Nazareth (maybe)

When does a story grow stale? Does the length of time between first publication of...

December 10, 2012

Should Fox News be telling you to lie and steal?

I realize I'm the fuddy duddy around here who is always telling kids to get...

December 02, 2012

Washington Post’s ghostly top 50 list

It's that time of year when media outlets put out their best of the year...

November 2012

November 22, 2012

The Pope hates Christmas

Breaking news from the Telegraph ... the newspaper's Rome reporter reports that one Joseph Ratzinger,...

November 20, 2012

Marco Rubio and the media’s curiously inconsistent approach to science

I wonder if any of our readers have read Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and...

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 14, 2012

Peter Beinart and the powerful, but voiceless, Jews of Atlanta

The New York Times published an interesting story about the Atlanta Jewish Book Festival ("Jewish...

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 15, 2012

Dear Brother Powers (a parody)

From the desk of Ayatollah Hassan Sanei Expediency Discernment Council, Tehran Mr. John Powers c

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 04, 2012

Warning! Mixing theology, canon law and ink is difficult

When it comes to the nuts and bolts of journalism, the task that terrifies my...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

Time to pin new label on Brian McLaren?

If people have long had trouble defining the word "evangelical" -- the Rev. Billy Graham...