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January 2014

January 20, 2014

Oh, those religious fund-raisers

GRETCHEN ASKS: (Paraphrasing) She attended a fund-raising event for an unnamed organization where a slide...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

AP skirts key element of ‘tips for Jesus’ story

As anyone who's done it can testify -- or, to be candid, so I've heard...

December 01, 2013

AP’s not-too-religious airport chaplain story

The entire long Thanksgiving weekend, it's widely reported, is the busiest air-travel season in the...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

Hobby Lobby, the Little Sisters of the Poor and the NYTimes

As a rule, conflicts between church and state are extremely complex and often produce headaches,...

November 11, 2013

Does help for communities justify churches’ tax exemption?

GORDON ASKS: (Paraphrased) Secularists challenge tax exemptions for houses of worship, saying this denies valuable...

November 08, 2013

Surprise! A same-sex marriage story that gets religion

For the latest Christian Chronicle, I wrote a news story on judicial authorities in the Pacific...

November 01, 2013

Is Columbia, Md., really a spirit-enriching secular city?

I am not a huge fan of Utopian visions, but I have always had a...

November 01, 2013

Ghosts in blue-state — er, red-state — West Virginia?

There's a lot to digest in the Washington Post's nearly 4,000-word political road trip to West...

October 2013

October 09, 2013

Warming the chair? WSJ laments the loss of the pew

It's five minutes past the hour, and you're late for services. The cat insisted on...

October 05, 2013

When religious liberty clashes with gay rights

This was the headline on a Wall Street Journal story this week: Some Businesses Balk...

September 2013

September 21, 2013

The ‘exceptional importance’ of the Hobby Lobby case

It's no surprise that the "Hobby Lobby" case is in the news. The valid headlines...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

On poverty, race, families and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Other than arguments about the United States becoming entangled in Syria, and Miley Cyrus coming...

August 28, 2013

Pod people: What’s religion got to do with Egyptian tourism?

In the wake of the events of 9/11, I had the honor of taking part...

August 06, 2013

Yay! Dallas paper examines heart and soul

It's becoming clear that The Dallas Morning News has no regard for the F-word. Faith,...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Kudos for Quartz’s coverage of business and religion

“Business is religion, and religion is business,” said Maltbie Babcock. “The man who does not...

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 09, 2013

Another religious holiday commercialized

I remember a sermon where a pastor pointed out that if it weren't for commercialization...

June 2013

June 29, 2013

Same-sex marriage and a conscience clash, via CNN

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage, CNN's "Belief Blog" features an...

June 27, 2013

Obamacare, Medicaid, God and cameo journalism

In a rapidly changing media environment, news organizations must learn to do more with less....

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Pope Francis’ affinity for liberation theology — wait, what?

For this post, we're not going to critique past the first sentence of this New...

May 16, 2013

Victoria’s Secret is way sexier than faith details

At first glance, the current mini-wave of news coverage of former underwear model Kylie Bisutti...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Secular-sacred union between Washington state hospitals

Suffice it to say that your GetReligionistas frequently receive emails that sound something like this:...

April 11, 2013

Evangelicals and immigration: Real data, real voices

A quick review before I get to the point of this post: • Back in...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Hey CNN: Ghosts in the ties that bind Cyprus and Russia

So I'm sitting in a restaurant eating my lunch and, up on the wall, the...

March 07, 2013

The new evangelical Goliath? Online ed at Liberty U

Back in November, The New York Times produced a downright nauseating account of Liberty University's...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Bang! Bang! Hey, eat some cotton candy!

A front-page headline on the print edition of USA Today that landed in my driveway...

February 02, 2013

Don’t have a cow over Chick-fil-A, man!

My post on the unlikely friendship between Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy and Campus Pride executive...

January 2013

January 12, 2013

Meet Christian financial guru Dave Ramsey, minus the faith

A decade ago, as a Tennessee-based religion and enterprise writer for The Associated Press, I...

December 2012

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 12, 2012

Ho ho ho and Merry F-word!

On its Money section cover today, USA Today celebrates a business that's using an R-rated word...