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November 2012

November 16, 2012

Preachers and politics: Be careful out there folks …

Today's digest from the Religion News Service (sign up for this very helpful service, if...

November 15, 2012

Ready, set, barf: An evangelical football feature

Grab your air-sickness bag and let's dive right into this New York Times sports feature....

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 08, 2012

The ghost of Prince William County

It's all about race. And age. Religion? Uh, surely that's not a factor worth exploring....

November 08, 2012

Which religious group should be blamed for the election results?

Well, everyone, we made it through another presidential campaign year! Congratulations to the winners and...

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...

November 06, 2012

God, gang graffiti and gunfire in L.A.

A heartwrenching story appears on the front page of today's Los Angeles Times (see a television report...

November 05, 2012

Top 10 ways BuzzFeed doesn’t get Christianity

Two minor media incidents yesterday made me wonder if some of the problems we see...

November 04, 2012

Pearls before Net commenters (or a Godbeat gem)

A reader sent along this story in the Washington Post headlined "Parents accept daughter's rare...

November 02, 2012

Risking lives to save souls in Mexico

Before I left on a mission trip south of the U.S. border this past spring,...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Halloween: trick or treat for Christians?

In yet another case of liberal bias by GetReligion, tmatt screamed "Boooo!" the other day...

October 29, 2012

Evangelicals warming to Mormon Romney?

A recent front-page Los Angeles Times story makes the case that reluctant evangelical Christian voters...

October 29, 2012

Hurricanes and political storms, near my desk in D.C.

A long time ago (in digital terms), back at the beginning of this here weblog,...

October 28, 2012

Pod people: Theodicy, pinnochios and the war on women

Last week was not one of the best for the mainstream media. I just wrote...

October 27, 2012

Boooo! One-side story praising Halloween evangelism?

It would be hard to imagine anything more controversial, in the American of 2012, than...

October 25, 2012

MSM’s upside-down Chick-fil-A sandwich

Remember when pickles, buttered buns and fried chicken filets were all we could talk about...

October 25, 2012

Democrats, Jesus and deer hunting in the GOP Sunbelt

For starters, as a culturally conservative Democrat who loved his years in Tennessee (and plans...

October 25, 2012

Media embarrassingly ill-equipped to cover rape, theodicy

The whole point of this website, since day one, has been to help mainstream journalists...

October 24, 2012

Galling MSM abortion extremism double standards

There are so many stories related to the media's poor coverage of abortion that I...

October 23, 2012

Jeers, not cheers, for latest cheerleader story

Ready? OK! In the midst of the Religion Newswriters Association annual meeting earlier this month,...

October 21, 2012

Does the Name “Theophilus” Violate the Establishment Clause?

I got that headline from an interesting discussion at the Center for Law and Religion...

October 20, 2012

Pod people: Digging for old news on ‘Nones’

Friends and neighbors, the whole media world continues to buzz with news (me too, of...

October 19, 2012

Imagine that: ‘Pew gap’ among Latinos on gay rights?

I am sure that this will come as a major shock to many occupants of...

October 15, 2012

God-shaped hole in story on Hong Kong protests

Every now and then, when I a traveling, I discover another layer of torn-out articles...

October 05, 2012

Sun at it again: Ghost in McLouth’s comeback

GetReligion readers, near and far, please pause and ponder the bizarre circumstances that were required...

October 05, 2012

Church, Lone Star State and #RNA2012

As Mollie mentioned, the GetReligion team — which mostly hangs out together in cyberspace — has...

October 05, 2012

Boundaries on reporting on religion and politics

Yesterday I told you about the pre-conference to the Religion Newswriters Association annual conference being...

October 03, 2012

Define ‘evangelical’ … Give three examples

Late one night last week, while I was attending a journalism conference in Kiev, I...

October 02, 2012

Separation of church and Lone Star State

Things that go together in Texas: Chicken-fried steak and gravy. Cowboy hats and boots. Church...