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August 2014

August 01, 2014

Same as it ever was: It’s time for a new, old GetReligion

You know that whole Christmas in July thing, when stores and other groups have fun...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Pod people: Are all political liberals also on moral left?

Every now and then, Issues, Etc., host Todd Wilken take and I off in one...

July 17, 2014

Pod people: Gunga Galunga goes CNN

Carl: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to...

July 12, 2014

Pod people: Grading the grades on Supreme Court coverage

After two recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings, I tried a different approach to analyzing some...

July 06, 2014

Pod people: White House vs. the Wheaton College covenant

From the very beginning, some mainstream news organization have -- appropriately so -- emphasized that...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Pod people: Sometimes editors really need to do the math

I have never been much of a math guy, but sometimes you have to see...

June 24, 2014

Journalism, facts and the fires of hell (revisited)

Without a theory the facts are silent, the economist F. A. Hayek has written. That...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Pod people: Vatican III? Nicea III? Press blind spot 666?

The questions jumped into Twitter in a flash, which is what one would assume would...

May 25, 2014

Épater le bourgeois catholique

Stories about religion seem to do odd things to otherwise sensible reporters. Some news articles...

May 11, 2014

Pod people: Reindeers and the quest for nonsectarian prayer

So why, you ask, is that generic civic Christmas scene on top of this GetReligion...

April 2014

April 13, 2014

Pod people: So what could reporters cover during Lent?

Long, long ago, back at the beginning of Lent, I put up a post that...

April 10, 2014

Pod people: ‘Pinko’ Pat Buchanan and the Daily Mail

Heavy breathing this week from London's Daily Mail, which has denounced American political commentator Patrick...

March 2014

March 22, 2014

Pod people: To the end of the secular universe and beyond!

Imagine that you are caught in the middle of the following puzzle. You are a...

March 13, 2014

Pod people: There really are two sides to every story, folks

The stories we critique here at GetReligion usually fall into one of two categories. First...

March 09, 2014

Carry on and Keep quiet when reporting on religion in China

"Why does the press soft pedal links between terrorism and Islam?" was the question under...

March 02, 2014

Pod people: Continuing the Elevation Church debate

At this point, I am not sure what the Rev. Steven Furtick was thinking when...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

Pod people: Local vs. national press on religious liberty

Proposed religious liberty exemptions for wedding vendors — such as bakers, florists and photographers —...

February 07, 2014

Pod people: Russell Wilson, ghosts, 10 years of GetReligion

Let's do this one backwards. In a perfect world, the easy way to do mainstream...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Pod people: Memory and revolution in Kiev

All Ukraine, All the time is not our moto at GetReligion. Though you may be...

January 18, 2014

Pod People: Prayer’s place in science, sports and submission

Where is Jahi McMath, and what is the latest installment of her story? I'm glad...

December 2013

December 28, 2013

Pod people: What was top 2013 story for Pope Francis?

I am sure that GetReligion readers will be shocked, shocked to know that the Godbeat...

December 23, 2013

Pod people: Time’s betrayal of liberalism

Time magazine's exercise in gay agitprop was the focus of Thursday's Get Religion's Crossroads podcast....

December 15, 2013

Pod people: Much ado, nothing new, Merry Christmas to you

Santa scored big in Texas schools this week. Free speech, meanwhile, ruled it a tie....

November 2013

November 15, 2013

Pod people: Don’t mess with C.S. Lewis

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with...

November 09, 2013

Pod people: Stopping in again at the Death Café

Pull thoughts and words from my head and form sentences with them on a screen?...

November 02, 2013

Pod people: Does it matter if celebrities/royals have faith?

As the old saying goes, Americans don't have a royal family. We have celebrities. We...

October 2013

October 18, 2013

Pod people: Are Christians crazy, or just stupid?

There is little new under the sun when it comes to anti-theistic arguments. Whether it...

October 11, 2013

Pod people: Facts are your friends, journalists

Here at GetReligion, we make no secret of our bias. That bias: our deep affection...

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...

September 2013

September 22, 2013

Pod people: Religion and mass shootings

The Crossroads podcast this week was devoted to discussion of covering shootings. And in the...