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February 2014

February 24, 2014

Keeping Lent: Not once a year but four times

TERRY (YES, that TERRY) ASKS: Whatever happened to the Lenten disciplines that used to be...

February 21, 2014

The sad story of a priest, a partial-penitent and the press

At this point, it is no longer unusual to read a news story about an...

February 17, 2014

Part II of America’s church slide: What to do?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Part I of "Why the slide in the influence of America's churches?" GENE...

February 13, 2014

Doing right by the pope — and by the readers

What a pleasure it is to see a writer do it right. So it's a...

February 12, 2014

That faceless, mysterious flock of atheists in Guitar Town

One of the rules here at GetReligion is that we really, really try to understand...

February 12, 2014

Baring their souls: Seeking more coverage on naked church

Strip down this post to its bare essentials, and here's the naked truth: Sometimes the...

February 11, 2014

United Methodists fighting over gay marriage — period?

Maybe it's because I covered religion in Colorado during the 1980s, but I find it...

February 06, 2014

The Guardian: Ridiculing the saints, the Virgin and prayer

Why do we fight? Why do we write? What motivates our editor tmatt and the...

February 04, 2014

Jim Davis agrees to join GetReligion’s thriving Florida bureau

EDITOR'S NOTE: What can I say? When I lived in South Florida this guy was...

February 03, 2014

Women and men and the Bible and the church

PARK ASKS: What are the major scriptural passages [and interpretations] relative to a complementarian and...

February 01, 2014

Concerning AP and the Vatican’s ‘glass ceiling’ for women

Your GetReligionistas received several angry emails this past week about the following Associated Press story,...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

New bishop in Harrisburg: One story, one side, one problem

OK, gentle readers, once again I need to stress that the following post on a...

January 30, 2014

Read this story and weep! But ask a few more questions

Every now and then, I receive private emails, or emails sent through our contact link,...

January 30, 2014

Now who was that Joseph guy in the old story from Genesis?

Former GetReligionista Brad Greenberg passed along this interesting item from Twitter, which barely requires commentary...

January 27, 2014

God, prayer and the winner of the Super Bowl

THIS WEEK, the question doesn’t come from a “Religion Q and A” reader but a...

January 22, 2014

Time magazine claims that Bible-ness is next to Godliness

An old Salvation Army musical production -- the kind of church entertainment often aimed at...

January 20, 2014

Oh, those religious fund-raisers

GRETCHEN ASKS: (Paraphrasing) She attended a fund-raising event for an unnamed organization where a slide...

January 19, 2014

On the cautious use of loaded terms such as ‘messianism’

So let's try this again. The other day I wrote about a news report that...

January 16, 2014

Journalists editing Pope Francis: Who are we to judge?

Sometimes, in this tricky world of media criticism, it's hard to pay attention to what...

January 15, 2014

New to the Godbeat in St. Louis: Lilly Fowler

Congrats to @RNS contributor @LillyAFowler, succeeding @townsendreport as #religion writer at @STLtoday. Starts Jan. 20....

January 14, 2014

Reuters editors read mind of Pope Francis on abortion

So, GetReligion readers, it is time for short religion-news quiz. Raise your hands (or click...

January 13, 2014

What M.Z. said: Doctor Who vs. Jesus at BuzzFeed?

First things first: Yes, I am a big Doctor Who fan. Thus, I find the...

January 13, 2014

UK journo’s ‘General’ Salvation Army confusion

London's Telegraph newspaper generally does a serviceable job when reporting on religion, but a recent commentary...

January 10, 2014

So what is the new ‘On Faith’ about, in these early days?

Through the years, your GetReligionistas tended to offer rather mixed views of the "On Faith"...

January 08, 2014

What? The press overlooked key Catholic stories in 2013?

First of all, I would like to stress that I had already decided, several days...

January 07, 2014

What can we say? Boston Globe hires John L. Allen, Jr.

For several decades now, I have been telling mainstream newsroom managers that all they have...

January 06, 2014

Hail Epiphany and farewell to Christmas (and white Santas)

First things first: I hope that readers who are into that whole Christian calendar had...

January 04, 2014

NPR stumbles on GOP and Darwinian orthodoxy

Here's a shocker, but not really. More Democrats than Republicans believe in evolution, or so...

January 01, 2014

Oklahoma news: A Christmas ‘miracle’ via the local atheists

News stories blending the miraculous with Christmas aren't difficult to find: families reunited, poor children...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Does ‘Pope Francis effect’ mean a Catholic growth trend?

The best journalists report what they know — and what they don't. Given the flurry...