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October 2013

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 02, 2013

Pew news: You don’t have to be religious to be Jewish

Readers (and bloggers) "of a certain age" will recall the famous advertising campaign for Levy's...

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 24, 2013

Rise of the tiny church, with its no-cost clergyperson

In recent decades mainstream journalists have spilled oceans of ink -- with good cause --...

September 24, 2013

More personnel changes on the Godbeat

Here at GetReligion, we don't generally report the news. We critique media coverage of the...

September 22, 2013

Terrorists shred faithful at generic Pakistani church

Yesterday was Kenya and, of course, the killing there isn't over yet. Today, there is...

September 20, 2013

Toasting the Godbeat

Last night the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty honored Eric Marrapodi, manager of CNN's Belief...

September 19, 2013

Jackpot! Godbeat pro shows her winning hand

If you're in a hurry, there's no need to finish the rest of this post....

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 17, 2013

Seeing through a famous glass cathedral, rather dimly

The 2010 bankruptcy of Crystal Cathedral Ministries, founded in 1955 by the Rev. Robert H....

September 16, 2013

Was the Navy gunman Buddhist? Does it matter?

Some 12 people were killed by a gunman at Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yards on Monday...

September 14, 2013

Assessing the state of the Godbeat

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

September 10, 2013

Et tu, Tim? Townsend latest to leave the Godbeat (updated)

Speaking of Ch-ch-ch-ch Changes ... In the last few weeks, we've highlighted the departures of...

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...

August 2013

August 31, 2013

Noooooooooooo!!! Godbeat losing a superstar

It's official: I'm leaving Post-Gazette 9/5 to be communications director for #Catholic @diopitt Thanks for...

August 30, 2013

WWROD? What does sharia law look like in practice?

The other day, in a discussion of events in Egypt, I noted -- once again...

August 24, 2013

Religion and the 1963 March on Washington

August 28 is the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. There's a huge...

August 22, 2013

Guess which sin makes church discipline newsworthy?

Every week, in churches around the world, Christians engage in a peculiar practice in which...

August 21, 2013

Interesting Rowan Williams apology: And important, too

Let us return, for a moment, to that interesting quote the other day from the...

August 21, 2013

Should CNN editor accept religious liberty award?

A Religion Dispatches blog post this week noted that CNN Godbeat pro Eric Marrapodi will receive the first...

August 19, 2013

Godbeat losing one of its best and brightest

Usually, we critique religion news here at GetReligion. Occasionally, we report on significant developments on...

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 15, 2013

Sex and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The largest Lutheran group in the United States is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America....

August 14, 2013

Hey Mr. DJ, put some praise music on

As a famous religious figure once said, “Ask and you shall receive.” Sometimes even we...

August 12, 2013

The Sun talks (just talk, no facts) about an Episcopal hero

I didn't know much about the Rt. Rev. David Leighton -- the 11th diocese 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,...

August 01, 2013

Locking the two popes into one flawed news template

As has been our practice since day one, your GetReligionistas rarely write posts about editorials,...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Results vary as media follow Rick Warren’s return

Over the weekend, Rick Warren returned to the pulpit for the first time since his...