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December 2013

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 24, 2013

NYTimes: Mouseketeer-turned-Pagan-turned-Christian trip

One of the staples of evangelical Christianity -- at least so far as I can...

November 15, 2013

Story envy, courtesy of the New York Times

I'll just come out and say it: I wish I had written this story. Well...

November 13, 2013

Close to home: Those Godbeat changes hit tmatt

What he said: "I'm glad to hear that Scripps Howard still as a religion writer...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Yet another one-sided AP same-sex marriage story

Over the weekend, I did a post titled "Another one-sided AP same-sex marriage story." I...

October 11, 2013

Memories of Jack Spong (as opposed to hagiography)

Many years had elapsed during which nothing of Combray, save what was comprised in the...

October 07, 2013

So long, GetReligion

It was about eight years ago exactly when I surprised Terry Mattingly by shouting his...

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 01, 2013

A more graceful Ross joins GetReligion crew

Some folks get annoyed when they read a news story with holes, a piece with...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Saith EEE: The business of those religion-beat cuts

The other day I received an email from a former GetReligion colleague, the Rev. Elizabeth...

September 19, 2013

Do religious readers really want quality religion coverage?

It has been awhile since our own Bobby Ross, Jr., quoted that laugh-to-keep-from-crying tweet by...

September 14, 2013

Assessing the state of the Godbeat

I posted earlier this week on three veteran superstars of the Godbeat — Ann Rodgers,...

September 09, 2013

Ch-ch-ch-ch Changes again, here in GetReligion land

All together now, GetReligion readers. Strange fascination, fascinating me Changes are taking the pace I'm...

September 07, 2013

Pod people: ‘Conservative’ Baptists spark a conversation

In three and a half years, I've written 439 posts for GetReligion (this makes 440,...

September 03, 2013

Jake Tapper on opinion journalism masquerading as news

I'm a longtime fan of Jake Tapper of CNN, and formerly of ABC News. I...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Hey, you put your opinion in my news!

One of the many products offered by Religion News Service is its daily round-up of...

August 10, 2013

Pod people: A little GetEducation for GetReligion

In the 1990s, before I became a religion writer, I covered education for The Oklahoman,...

July 2013

July 19, 2013

Intrigue in the wide, wide world of the religion-news beat?

For several days now, I have been very curious about an item related to mainstream...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Pod people: Have many Americans tuned out the press?

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage, I wrote two...

June 14, 2013

It’s summertime, and GetReligionista life is complicated

Yes, it's summertime (sing along with the voice of my teen years in Port Arthur,...

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 21, 2013

The faith and resiliency of Oklahomans

Just before noon Monday, my two younger children and I drove along Interstate 35 through...

May 01, 2013

Joe Carter: From GetReligion reader to scribe

Having been a reader and fan of GetReligion, I’m thrilled and honored to be joining...

April 2013

April 21, 2013

Pod people: Talking personal history on the religion beat

Granted, 25 years is a rather long time, especially in the Internet age. Nevertheless, I...

April 17, 2013

On Sarah Kliff’s mea culpa on Gosnell (a national story)

If you have been on Twitter in the past week or so, you probably know...

April 11, 2013

Some familiar religion-news questions, after 25 years

What are the odds? Several years ago, I realized that I was not really sure...

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 09, 2013

Faith, fear and the Holocaust

Back in March, this title on a New York Times news analysis grabbed my attention:...

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...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Render unto Google the things which are Google’s …

First of all, let me state right up front that it is hard to do...