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September 2013

September 22, 2013

Pod people: Religion and mass shootings

The Crossroads podcast this week was devoted to discussion of covering shootings. And in the...

September 21, 2013

Religious facts in the slaughter in upscale Nairobi mall

Based on the mainstream media reports pouring out of Kenya, it's clear that the terrorist...

September 13, 2013

Hey AP: Does anyone know why Terry Jones was arrested?

If you have spent much time studying First Amendment cases you will know that many...

September 11, 2013

AFP gives Maalula its due

It was my intention today to look at religion news coverage of the anniversary of...

September 08, 2013

What is the X-factor in Syrian bloodshed? DUH! (updated)

It seems that many networkers in the online world remain fired up about that recent...

September 03, 2013

PBS: Understanding Syria (minus any nasty religion stuff)

So here we go again. This weekend I mentioned an online explainer piece served up...

September 02, 2013

How to follow totally secular Syria news on Twitter

The goal here at GetReligion is, of course, to look at the good and the...

August 2013

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 28, 2013

Pod people: What’s religion got to do with Egyptian tourism?

In the wake of the events of 9/11, I had the honor of taking part...

August 27, 2013

Got news? Mother Jones on ghosts in FBI’s Hasan probe

Your GetReligionistas normally do not spend much time looking at ideological media outlets, such as...

August 27, 2013

Where is the BBC’s coverage of Egypt?

What lays behind the Anglo-American press's failure to report on the chaos in Egypt? While...

August 25, 2013

After Hasan trial: Spot big religion ghost in this story

The military trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan was never -- as a journalism story --...

August 23, 2013

What do Egyptians really mean when they say ‘sharia’?

One of the major themes in GetReligion posts about Islam over the past decade has...

August 23, 2013

Americans prejudiced against Al Jazeera?

The new cable news channel Al Jazeera America is drawing a lot of major media...

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 20, 2013

LATimes sees the layers of threats against Copts in Egypt

The dominant story coming out of Egypt right now continues, and with good cause, to...

August 16, 2013

What did Pope Tawadros say? When did he say it? (updated)

At the pivotal event announcing the fall of President Mohamed Morsi, a number of symbolic...

August 15, 2013

Saith the WPost: So what’s really going on in Egypt?

My cellphone chimed at me earlier this afternoon with a news bulletin from CNN that...

August 14, 2013

Muslims kill Muslims, for no reasons that can be reported

The bloodshed in Egypt continues and, to be quite frank about it, it's hard to...

August 12, 2013

Married 60 times before age 18 in Egypt

The Washington Post had a religion news blog item last week headlined, horrifyingly, "‘Some girls...

August 09, 2013

Remember when Jesus went to Assiut? (Yeah, me neither.)

"Both Roman Catholic and Evangelical Protestant media have for years been drawing public attention to...

August 08, 2013

Major Nidal Hasan talks about faith, like it or not

Some may disagree, but I think we have reached the point where we can say...

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 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 26, 2013

NPR’s curiously biased quest for the historical Jesus

Did you know that Jesus wasn't really God? Despite what his disciples claim, he never...

July 16, 2013

Who’s afraid of les jeunes of France?

Nick: Are you all right? Honey: Of course, dear. I just want to put some...

July 12, 2013

Muhammad marketing mishaps in Sydney

I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, All over this land, I'd...

July 09, 2013

Doing the bloody math in emerging civil war in Egypt

It appears that some members of the mainstream press are beginning to do the hard,...

July 09, 2013

Another religious holiday commercialized

I remember a sermon where a pastor pointed out that if it weren't for commercialization...

July 06, 2013

A Newtown massacre in Nigeria, with ghosts

Absolutely horrific news out of Nigeria today. From the Associated Press: POTISKUM, Nigeria — Islamic...