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January 2013

January 18, 2013

Scared ‘journalist’ hides in a church, lives to write about it

A few weeks ago, a Twitter post from Tim Townsend, the award-winning religion writer for...

January 15, 2013

On immigration reform, ‘many’ evangelicals all think alike

On a chilly morning last January, I got up before the sun rose and joined...

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...

January 12, 2013

Pod people: You will know us by the trail of scare quotes

This week's "Crossroads" podcast with host Todd Wilken was recorded much earlier in the week....

January 11, 2013

Affirm homosexuality now … or else

Washington Post Book World fiction editor Ron Charles tweeted out this morning: Changing times: Gay...

January 09, 2013

Who’s this guy giving Obama’s benediction?

Two days ago, I wrote a post in which I suggested that the ginormous Passion...

January 07, 2013

Got news? The hidden mystery of 60K Christians

Of all the interesting things to consider as a media critic, the most important is...

January 02, 2013

Washington Post finds ghost in Russian adoption ban

Now that my husband and I hope to bring more children into our family through...

January 01, 2013

Do Nativity scenes owe more to artists than historians?

I am blessed to be a member of an absolutely wonderful congregation. It's a healthy...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

ESPN gets Irvin and his ‘threshing floor’ sermon

Hey! Time for another GetReligion post about religious issues in sports coverage! Can you hear...

December 22, 2012

WWROD: Which denominations do what well?

So, GetReligion readers, have you submitted a religion-rooted question yet to veteran scribe Richard Ostling,...

December 21, 2012

Got news? White House vs. Little Sisters of the Poor

From coast to coast, the lawyers of religious groups and charities can almost quote the...

December 21, 2012

Fox forces the Mass into Christmas

A friend put this picture up on Google+ (so I guess that answers the question...

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 14, 2012

WWROD: What the heck is a ‘denomination’ anyway?

As I mentioned the other day, one of the best religion-beat professionals ever -- that...

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...

December 10, 2012

Yahoo! asks Robert Griffin III a rather obvious question

The big news here in Washington, D.C., (other than the mysteries of the U.S. Supreme...

December 07, 2012

Should churches, left or right, serve as polling places?

Anyone who knows anything about the at times dangerous dance between politics and religion in...

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...

December 04, 2012

For some reason, someone forgave someone else

If someone took your child's life, would you forgive the killer? Renee Napier did. But...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Gov’t RFID tracking: Creepy or mark of the beast?

When I first heard rumblings about school districts in Texas using locator chips to track...

November 28, 2012

Too little news, too much analysis?

A flurry of e-mailed links to religion news stories flies back and forth each day...

November 27, 2012

Going off-script: Angus Jones zaps ‘Two and a Half Men’

First things first. I sincerely hope that you've never had the displeasure of watching the...

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 21, 2012

On women bishops: Who voted ‘no’ and why?

To the shock of legions of mainstream reporters, the Church of England fell just short...

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 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 19, 2012

Tough to understand Tufts evangelicals

The Boston Globe reported last week on an evangelical student group at Tufts University facing...

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...