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September 2013

September 13, 2013

Fresh take on Yom Kippur

I wish we saw more coverage of liturgical holidays but I get why we don't....

September 04, 2013

Hey AP: Where is religious left on religious liberty issues?

A long, long time ago, 1998 to be precise, I wrote a column marking the...

August 2013

August 24, 2013

Religion and the 1963 March on Washington

August 28 is the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. There's a huge...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Concerning theological Swiss Army knives (think chaplains)

In the world of church-state studies, few puzzles are as tough to crack as those...

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 22, 2013

The controversial mind and Lebanese soul of Helen Thomas

As I have mentioned before here at GetReligion, at the time of the Sept. 11...

July 14, 2013

NY Times gets religion … in Rome!

The New York Times published a lengthy travel piece with tons of religion in it....

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,...

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 24, 2013

Attention liberals: Blasphemy cases on the rise in Egypt

As I have said numerous times, I cannot imagine how hard it must be to...

June 19, 2013

Daily Beast: Bridezillas vs. old-fashioned ties that bind

And now for something completely different. Yes, I am about to praise an article published...

June 13, 2013

On Tim Tebow, ‘spirituality’ and stating the obvious

Here we go again, sort of. Now, I live in the land of purple and...

May 2013

May 26, 2013

WPost wants to know: So who built the Second Temple?

Kudos to the Washington Post for moving quickly to correct an error in Wednesday's article...

April 2013

April 14, 2013

Jewish Identity and the Western Wall

You couldn't, he thought, find three Jews in the world who would agree on what...

April 09, 2013

Faith, fear and the Holocaust

Back in March, this title on a New York Times news analysis grabbed my attention:...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

Winners and losers in our do-it-yourself religion era

No one on the national religion-news scenes writes with more vigor and enthusiasm about America's...

March 18, 2013

Telling the ‘truth’ in Hamas-Israeli conflict

Here's another story that I wanted to cover last week before I got injured and...

March 08, 2013

Antisemitism and when context matters for the NY Times

This week, the conservative Weekly Standard broke a story that was headlined: Michelle Obama and...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Ultra Orthodox or fervently religious Jews?

The Jewish Daily Forward has a fascinating discussion of terms used to describe Haredi. It...

February 08, 2013

Covering opposition to syncretism in a syncretized world

There is nothing more fun about being a confessional Lutheran than explaining our position on...

February 06, 2013

Rape and religion in Israel

Here's a proposition for GetReligion readers: The quality of a news article should be measured...

February 06, 2013

Ghosts crowding in on drone stories

If I weren't so sick I would have already done this but in the days...

February 05, 2013

Lining up the facts on eruvim

The New York Times has a story about three lawsuits that have been filed over...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Is Christian Zionism off the NY Times radar?

Comments given to an American church audience in 2011 by an Israeli rabbi, who stood...

January 18, 2013

Got News? President of Egypt calls Jews apes and pigs

The Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel reported on a video from 2010 that was...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

Remembrance and mourning in Newtown

I imagine I'm not alone in still struggling with the Newtown massacre. Even after witnessing...

December 28, 2012

Everything you know about Christmas is wrong

George just posted about an old story being rehashed for Christmas, which reminded me that...

December 20, 2012

Pod people: Don’t mention the war!

"Don’t mention the war!” is the catch phrase from “The Germans” episode of the British...

December 19, 2012

Christians are numerous. What’s their problem?

Yesterday, Pew came out with a new "Global Religious Landscape" report. Much of the media...

December 17, 2012

So a rabbi and a priest and 20 parents walk into hell

So, how many GetReligion readers will be able to forget watching the Robbie Parker press...