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August 2013

August 11, 2013

The missing faith angle in the Catholic charity story

Having grown up in a large Catholic family that volunteered at her church, a former...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

The truly interfaith church of what’s happening now

From the very beginning of this weblog, your GetReligionistas have argued that some of America's...

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....

June 2013

June 14, 2013

Got news? Is a global ‘war on Christianity’ newsworthy?

Would it be newsworthy if a U.S. Senator claimed in a public address that American...

May 2013

May 27, 2013

Does the president, and the press, get theodicy?

There’s an old joke preachers tell about the man who was depressed and opened the...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Render unto Google the things which are Google’s …

First of all, let me state right up front that it is hard to do...

March 28, 2013

Got news? Egyptian Copts tortured for some strange reason

Yes, I know that we're talking about a report on Fox News. That fact alone,...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

Got news? A fishy hole in all those Lent stories

So it's a Friday in Lent (only in Western churches, at this point), so what...

February 21, 2013

Catholic yes to yoga?

I have been waiting for the American press to pick up an article found in...

February 11, 2013

Gay marriage and golf

Little news of the gay marriage debate in the French National Assembly has made its...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Got news? When is a desecrated memorial a big story?

If you have been reading this blog much in the past week (greeting to the...

January 02, 2013

Got news? That other 2012 Supreme Court case

Does anyone out there in GetReligion reader land remember that narrow U.S. Supreme Court decision...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Got news? White House vs. Little Sisters of the Poor

From coast to coast, the lawyers of religious groups and charities can almost quote the...

December 11, 2012

Celibacy and the clergy abuse scandal

Last Friday the Deutsche Bischofskonferenz, the German Episcopal Conference of the Roman Catholic Church, released...

December 03, 2012

Whistling in the dark about Islam and reform

Has anyone seen a story in the U.S. press about the opening of...

November 2012

November 07, 2012

Spies of the Balkans

The 98-year old leader of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has died. I guess you weren't...

November 05, 2012

The Hot Dog theory of history

It is touching to see that in spite of everything that has happened over the...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

What’s happening in Zanzibar?

It's been about five years since I was last in Zanzibar. I was part of...

August 2012

August 22, 2012

Got news? Bavarian rabbi in legal trouble for WHAT?!

With GetReligion's move to the Patheos universe, it's highly likely that this here weblog has...