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March 2013

March 30, 2013

Another hack piece by CNN … maybe (Updated)

What's good for the goose is good for, um, Sarah Pulliam Bailey. Right? Sarah, former...

March 28, 2013

Religion ghost in school voucher story?

School vouchers aren't exactly a new concept. In my education reporting days — before I...

March 25, 2013

A stone, but no tablet, at the emergency room

It's been a difficult few weeks for your friendly neighborhood GetReligionistas. First, George endured major...

March 17, 2013

Pod people: Did you hear? There is a new pope!

You will be shocked, shocked, need I say SHOCKED to know that this week's "Crossroads"...

March 15, 2013

WWROD: Is bad religion-news coverage bad for news biz?

Warning to readers: The following post is blatantly self-serving and includes flattering remarks about the...

March 14, 2013

Vatican secret ballots aren’t democratic?

Friends, I took a nasty fall a couple of days ago and have seriously injured...

March 13, 2013

Dudes with red hats deadlocked on pope winner

The religion news world remains on pope watch, awaiting the selection of Benedict XVI's successor....

March 06, 2013

Duck, duck, ghost: Media miss faith angle on ‘Duck Dynasty’

Do you speak duck? Last Wednesday night, the Season 3 premiere of A&E's "Duck Dynasty" delivered...

March 03, 2013

Two items of GetReligion biz (prayers for George, please)

Let me share two items with readers this weekend, both of a personal nature. The...

March 01, 2013

Way to go, Joe! Colorado civil-unions story hits the mark

In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that Joe Hight, the relatively...

February 2013

February 05, 2013

Nah-nah-nah-nah: Navel-gazing at ninth anniversary

So tmatt kicked off the GetReligion ninth anniversary celebration over the weekend. As we contemplate...

February 02, 2013

GetReligion turns nine; Newsweek sort of vanishes

So once again, with feeling. Nine years ago today, the Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc clicked...

January 2013

January 21, 2013

BBC misses religious-liberty ghost in St. Francisville, La.

Through the years, your GetReligionistas have gone out of our way to note that it's...

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 15, 2013

I’ve been named a PBS reporter!

This story came to my attention via the great, seemingly omnipresent Rocco Palmo, who tweeted...

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 02, 2013

Got news? That other 2012 Supreme Court case

Does anyone out there in GetReligion reader land remember that narrow U.S. Supreme Court decision...

November 2012

November 24, 2012

Basketball coach’s ‘intensely religious’ widow

A variety of factors contributed to my decision to become a journalist: My love for writing....

November 03, 2012

About GetReligion: In a few words or less

For years, journalists took one of two different approaches when labeling the two sides in...

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,...

November 01, 2012

Missing some fundamental facts on Obama and faith

A week or so ago, I wrote a Scripps Howard News Service column about the...

October 2012

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 16, 2012

A non-journalistic flight to heaven and back

In the past week of so, I have received a number of requests for a...

October 11, 2012

Baylor grad pushes app for cheaters?

A long, long time ago, I was a journalism major at Baylor University, which, as...

October 03, 2012

Define ‘evangelical’ … Give three examples

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