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July 2013

July 29, 2013

Snickering at FoxNews while getting duped by ‘Zealot’ author

Many of us who came of age during the birth of New Media are reflexively...

July 22, 2013

Can’t headline writers and reporters get on the same page?

We live in an age of unprecedented communications technology. With access to cell phones, Skype,...

July 22, 2013

NYT struggles to distinguish Voltaire, Spider-Man and Jesus

In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says: But he who did not know, yet committed...

July 19, 2013

The AP discovers the Christian hipster pastor

Does your pastor wear v-neck shirts, have tattoos on both forearms, and ride a fixed-gear...

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...

July 17, 2013

A top-notch profile of Baptist ethicist, with a few caveats

I really liked Tennessean Godbeat pro Bob Smietana's profile last year of Richard Land, then...

July 16, 2013

Gay rights, street preachers, and narrative preferences

When I was 12-years-old I developed an unhealthy addiction to Choose Your Own Adventure novels....

July 08, 2013

Can we get some historical context on the canonized popes?

If you're elected Bishop of Rome, you join one of the world's most exclusive lists....

July 05, 2013

Why atheists who pray should still be called atheists

What do you call someone who reads the Bible, attends church, prays daily, and believes...

July 01, 2013

A tune on gay evangelicals that evangelicals won’t recognize

While working on a recording together, Johnny Cash asked Bob Dylan if he knew "Ring...

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 28, 2013

Want balanced coverage? USA Today shows how it’s done

A few weeks ago a study on news media coverage by the Pew Research Center...

June 25, 2013

Godless congregations copying Christian churches

Every year, approximately 4,000 new churches are started in the U.S. Out of that number,...

June 21, 2013

Miracle caused by mere memory of John Paul II?

There has been another development in the canonization case of the Blessed John Paul II,...

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,...

June 11, 2013

Calvinism debate shakes up Southern Baptist Convention

Just how much do you know about Calvinism? Former GetReligionista and current Religion News Service...

June 08, 2013

Pod people: ‘Mass exodus’ from the Boy Scouts?

One of the wonderful things about writing is the ability to type something, decide it's...

June 06, 2013

When a pastor has an affair and nobody’s talking

A megachurch pastor resigns after admitting an affair. That sounds like a news story, right?...

June 05, 2013

WPost Style manages to print an interesting EWTN story

Whenever your GetReligionistas pick on the Style gods at The Washington Post -- primarily with...

June 05, 2013

How should journalists fight back against sacred jargon?

Yesterday, CNN ran a feature highlighting the faith of members of a Bible group the...

June 04, 2013

Evangelicalism is political, but not a political movement

How many political issues do American evangelicals care about? Apparently, just two: abortion and same-sex...

June 01, 2013

Churches dumping Boy Scouts over gay policy … or not?

Godbeat pro Bob Smietana wrote a story this week exploring whether churches will keep sponsoring Boy...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

The big questions facing that out gay Catholic priest

It is my experience, through my decades on the religion beat, that liberal Catholics genuinely...

May 30, 2013

German cardinal found guilty of being pro-natalist

One of the most common fallacies of our age is the assumption that simply because...

May 29, 2013

Hanging out with Sheryl Crow and her kids — where?

While I have not lived in Nashville (yet), I have spent a lot of time...

May 23, 2013

Yes, Pope Francis said: All are ‘redeemed!’ Is that news?

Let's start with the actual words spoken by Pope Francis, in his much quoted, and...

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 17, 2013

One, two, trend: Godbeat pros changing jobs!

Here at GetReligion, we focus mainly on critiquing the mass media's coverage of religion news....

May 15, 2013

Well here’s a new spin on female ordination

Let's begin this post with this link to the Vatican's Code of Canon Law: Can. ...

May 12, 2013

WWROD? Another stab at defining the word ‘evangelical’

Long ago, I asked the Rev. Billy Graham a question that I really thought he,...