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February 2014

February 03, 2014

Tweeting Mohammad

The Mohammad cartoon controversy has resurfaced over the past week with a flutter over a...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

No ghosts in this SI look at Wooden, Alcindor/Abdul Jabbar

Week after week, month after month, year after year, I write GetReligion posts in which...

January 14, 2014

WPost whoppers about the Muslim Brotherhood

Claims of bias and inaccurate reporting have dogged the Western press's coverage of Egypt since...

January 11, 2014

NYTimes mostly ‘gets it’ on German schools and Islam

A few days ago, George Conger took to this space to "bury" The New York Times...

January 09, 2014

News flash! AP ends the Great Schism of 1054!

Many moons ago -- just under a quarter of a century -- I covered a...

January 09, 2014

No sex please, we’re Indian

Rape and religion returned to the front pages of India's newspapers this week after a...

January 07, 2014

Are there different versions of Islam’s Quran?

DUANE ASKS: Are there different versions of the Quran or just different interpretations of the...

January 01, 2014

Happy (religious) New Year, all year long, age after age

THE GUY EXPLAINS: Lacking a specific question from a reader, The Guy takes on his...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

Ghosts in those one-sided reports about victims in Syria

Rare is the day that I do not receive at least one or two emails...

December 17, 2013

UK’s Telegraph finds atheists in Florida — film at 11

Here's a shocker: America is becoming more secular, atheism is on the rise and --...

December 16, 2013

WPost hints at religious ghosts in India’s rape crisis

Several years ago, during a tour to promote The Media Project book called "Blind Spot:...

December 05, 2013

RNS: It’s no rumor; Turks want Hagia Sophia as a mosque

Talk about a trip into my guilt file. I just did a quick search in...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

Porn no more: Secular students inviting religious discussion

Gone is the "low-hanging fruit" of years past when the media converged on the University...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Rihanna’s vague voguing in The Independent

What does "improper" mean when it comes to Rihanna -- the Bajan pop star? The...

October 29, 2013

Forgetting the kippah or crucifix (and the second why)

All-nighters and Domino's Pizza at the student newspaper. X-acto knives and 2-point tape. The smell...

October 26, 2013

Got news? Has Kristallnacht come to the Middle East?

There was always an important, yet unstated, idea at the heart of the "On Faith"...

October 23, 2013

The Coptic ghost in those potential flights from Egypt

Let's start with a few journalistic questions. Am I surprised that The New York Times...

October 18, 2013

Lost in mobs, fire, guns and ink: Is Christ of Sinai safe?

What is the Mona Lisa worth? At the time of their destruction by the Taliban,...

October 16, 2013

Football and prayer story: touchdown or incomplete pass?

A Washington Post sports story caught my attention with this intriguing headline: Faith and football...

October 15, 2013

Pay no attention to Rand Paul (or Christian persecution!)

A Washington Post Politics news blog on Senator Rand Paul's appearance before the Value Voters...

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 04, 2013

Sarajevo census blues

"Context is king" is a catch phrase that summarizes the critique offered in many of...

October 02, 2013

LATimes looks at Egypt; sees only signs of Islamic life

Over the past two years, your GetReligionistas have frequently urged (one example here) journalists to...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

To use or not to use: Journalists and the word ‘Islam’

Do you ever get the impression, when reading mainstream news stories, that some editors have...

September 30, 2013

Der Spiegel and the cutting question of circumcision

The issue of circumcision has returned to Germany's newspapers -- and the manner in which...

September 26, 2013

Got news? Pope Francis speaks — this time the media blink

It's safe to assume that, at this moment in time, Pope Francis is a rock...

September 26, 2013

Praying Jews flock to the Temple Mount; world notices

If there is a "Ground Zero" for the world's three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity...

September 23, 2013

Nairobi: Recite this confession of faith and live

The hellish events in Nairobi's Westgate Premier Shopping Mall continue to unfold under the digital...

September 23, 2013

Triumph of the stringer in the Nairobi massacre coverage

African reporters are coming into their own with the stories coming out of Kenya this...

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...