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December 2012

December 01, 2012

Covering Catholics who are more like ‘Catholics’

GetReligion readers may recall the case of young Lennon Cihak, who -- at the very...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Richard Ostling — finally! — sets up an online camp

Anyone who has followed GetReligion for very long knows what the letters WWROD stand for....

November 16, 2012

Preachers and politics: Be careful out there folks …

Today's digest from the Religion News Service (sign up for this very helpful service, if...

November 12, 2012

What should be tweeted via @ThroneOfPeter?

Let's drop the media criticism for a moment and have a bit of fun (about...

November 08, 2012

What is this “American Catholic Church,” anyway?

What we have here is kind of a Son of the WomenPriests story -- with...

November 06, 2012

CNN attempts to bifurcate Jesus

I was reflecting on the interesting election coverage we experienced over the last year(s) and...

November 04, 2012

Pearls before Net commenters (or a Godbeat gem)

A reader sent along this story in the Washington Post headlined "Parents accept daughter's rare...

November 02, 2012

Catholic bishops’ not-so-partisan partisan crusade

The Washington Post ran a piece from Religion News Service with the headline: Catholic bishops...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Here I stand: Martin Luther on film

So while the rest of you are focused on Halloween, we Lutherans are busy celebrating...

October 30, 2012

Serious story on separation of yoga and state

When I saw this story come in (clicking on a URL from a reader), I...

October 27, 2012

Boooo! One-side story praising Halloween evangelism?

It would be hard to imagine anything more controversial, in the American of 2012, than...

October 26, 2012

Economist offers rare insights into Salafists

I have a friend who once worked for Time (actually, several people fit under that...

October 24, 2012

Galling MSM abortion extremism double standards

There are so many stories related to the media's poor coverage of abortion that I...

October 18, 2012

Church angles matter, in Prince George’s County

The state of Maryland is bluer than blue, when it comes to politics, so it's...

October 18, 2012

Weed is a beautiful gift from God

There is something about writing about marijuana that gets reporters a bit, well, dopey. You...

October 16, 2012

About the whole Jesus’ wife thing (Part 1)

Remember that front page New York Times story about Jesus' wife? Yeah, about that ......

October 08, 2012

Get hexed? From our ‘no comment’ department

Let me be honest with you. I am not sure how to start this post....

October 05, 2012

Church, Lone Star State and #RNA2012

As Mollie mentioned, the GetReligion team — which mostly hangs out together in cyberspace — has...

October 04, 2012

Hundreds of Godbeat journalists hit the Beltway

The Religion Newswriters Association annual conference is being held over the next few days here...

October 04, 2012

Warning! Mixing theology, canon law and ink is difficult

When it comes to the nuts and bolts of journalism, the task that terrifies my...

October 03, 2012

Define ‘evangelical’ … Give three examples

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

September 2012

September 30, 2012

Digging deeper than Tebow as ‘nice guy’

Another National Football League weekend, another chance to put Tim Tebow's name into digital print...

September 24, 2012

Missing ghost in this Crystal Cathedral story?

The Orange County Register has a story headlined "Former Crystal Cathedral pastor defaults on home."...

September 23, 2012

Americans underestimate Protestant population

A few months ago we looked at a survey that showed that the vast majority...

September 22, 2012

Anger at news media: A ‘pew gap’ out there?

Surely anyone who follows American politics, at least with serious intent, knows something about the...

September 21, 2012

The Boy They Couldn’t Kill

Go read Sports Illustrated's "The Boy They Couldn't Kill." It is far and away the...

September 19, 2012

Christmas comes early with ‘Jesus’ wife’ story

Readers of GetReligion are familiar with that mainstream media holiday tradition of releasing news stories...

September 17, 2012

Changes in the Godbeat

The Godbeat (or religion beat) is in the middle of some major shifts again, ones...

September 17, 2012

Archbishop Chaput ‘thunders’ away, on doctrine

Well, there goes that Archbishop Charles Chaput guy again, "thundering" away at his flock on...

September 15, 2012

The missing anti-Muslim movie stories

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting, if completely unsurprising, update to the stories about...