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May 2013

May 29, 2013

God and faith in Oklahoma tornado coverage

In my first-person account of the Moore, Okla., tornado last week, I predicted that the faith...

May 24, 2013

After the Boy Scouts? For a few, camping with doctrine

When considering the forces pulling at the Boy Scouts of America, one thing journalists really...

May 22, 2013

A quiverfull of kudos for the BBC

As an Evangelical in the media, I’m sympathetic to the struggle journalists have with reporting on...

May 21, 2013

How To Be A Lousy Journalist

Over at Intercollegiate Review, I have a piece with some helpful journalism tips. Here's how...

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...

May 14, 2013

Who’s worthy of more coverage: Akin or Gosnell?

When Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin made a comment about women being raped last year,...

May 12, 2013

Pod people: Proselytization, blasphemy and Gosnell

On this week's Crossroads podcast with host Todd Wilken, we talked media coverage of the...

May 12, 2013

WWROD? Another stab at defining the word ‘evangelical’

Long ago, I asked the Rev. Billy Graham a question that I really thought he,...

May 11, 2013

In post-denominational age, what’s in a name?

Joe Carter, our newest GetReligionista, referenced Southern Baptist name-change discussions in a post earlier this week....

May 10, 2013

Preach, Brother Leitch, Preach!

Please check out this column from my favorite sportswriter Will Leitch. (And I'm not just...

May 10, 2013

Asking the Boy Scout questions that matter the most

If you know anything about the politics of gay rights, you know that there is...

May 09, 2013

O ye gods! WPost blazes trail in AP heresy (updated)

A reading, according to the Stylebook of the Associated Press. Let us attend. gods and...

May 07, 2013

So, what do Southern Baptists have to do to get some ink?

A couple of years ago the Southern Baptist Convention explored the option of changing their...

May 07, 2013

Buddhism and horse-race politics

Campaign journalism is a favorite of reporters and readers alike. I am not a fan,...

May 03, 2013

Media treatment of Mikey Weinstein under scrutiny

Earlier today I mentioned some questions I have about this crazy "court-martial" story that blew...

May 03, 2013

I share, you evangelize, they proselytize

Defense Dept. say proselytism is banned but evangelism is ok (and no one's getting court...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Upwardly mobile Hispanic evangelical converts?

Darn you, paywall. Earlier this month, Time magazine published a 3,500-word cover story on what...

April 26, 2013

Today’s Epistle reading is from the New York Times

Last week, tmatt reflected on how the above reading at Margaret Thatcher's funeral was being...

April 23, 2013

Behold: A pretty fair tribute to George Beverly Shea

Longtime GetReligion readers may recall that I grew up in Texas in the 1960s and...

April 18, 2013

Is Ephesians 6 really about Thatcher’s strength?

Whenever my Washington Journalism Center students start covering speeches and major public events, always I...

April 16, 2013

Out front: the stigma of mental illness

In 2011, I traveled to rural Oregon to report on a minister who helped bring...

April 12, 2013

That ghost in Dr. Ben Carson’s, well, moral theology

The folks who edit and operate the newspaper that lands in my front yard are...

April 11, 2013

Evangelicals and immigration: Real data, real voices

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

April 10, 2013

Memory eternal: The faith and times of McCandlish Phillips

If you wanted to know who John McCandlish Phillips was, as a New York Times...

April 07, 2013

Myopic coverage of Warren in tragedy?

Of the many sad stories this weekend, one was the news that Rick Warren's son...

April 06, 2013

USA Today: Jesus’ hometown was … Jerusalem

I make no secret of my allegiance to God, my family and the Texas Rangers....

April 03, 2013

Was the New York Times Easter error no big deal?

The New York Times has been taking quite a bit of heat for its shockingly...

April 02, 2013

All hope is not lost: Easter in America’s newspapers

That New York Times doozie-of-a-correction notwithstanding, many American journalists understand exactly what Easter means for...

April 02, 2013

Steubenville: Ties between rape and ‘fundamentalist’ teens?

Your GetReligionistas don't spend much time digging around in the growing world of first-person, advocacy...

April 01, 2013

Christians wary on Easter (sort of) in Syria

Every religion writer has experienced those awkward moments each year when an editor walks over...