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December 2012

December 14, 2012

WWROD: What the heck is a ‘denomination’ anyway?

As I mentioned the other day, one of the best religion-beat professionals ever -- that...

December 13, 2012

Scratch a German, find a Nazi, the New York Times reports

The end of term is just round the corner with Christmas less than two weeks...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Polish anti-Semitism and the press

A new film that premiered last week has resurrected moral questions that some Poles hoped...

November 20, 2012

Accurate Holiday wars update from Santa Monica!

Oh my! We may have a Nativity Lent miracle on our hands! Trust me that...

November 14, 2012

Peter Beinart and the powerful, but voiceless, Jews of Atlanta

The New York Times published an interesting story about the Atlanta Jewish Book Festival ("Jewish...

November 07, 2012

The day after: The prophet John Green, revisited

It should be a quiet day on the religion-beat front, in the wake of yesterday's...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

Media embarrassingly ill-equipped to cover rape, theodicy

The whole point of this website, since day one, has been to help mainstream journalists...

October 20, 2012

Pod people: Digging for old news on ‘Nones’

Friends and neighbors, the whole media world continues to buzz with news (me too, of...

October 11, 2012

The anti-Semitic focus of French terrorism

You may recall media coverage regarding a kosher market in a suburb of Paris that...

September 2012

September 17, 2012

Journalism means never having to say you’re sorry

In comments to my post this weekend suggesting a few angles for coverage of Muslim...

September 09, 2012

Pod people: Civil (religion) wars

On this week's Crossroads podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discuss coverage of some of...

September 07, 2012

God purged from … major story in Washington Post

Obviously, the Divine Mrs. M.Z. Hemingway was all over the political conventions this week. I...

September 06, 2012

Mea Culpa: DNC platform story was a big deal

OK, so I'll begin by thanking everyone for being kind to me. I think it's...

September 05, 2012

Is God absent from the Democrats’ platform?

So I watched all of the Democratic National Convention's first night last night and it...

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...

August 17, 2012

Who determines who is a Jew?

In his 2008 Atlantic review of Gregor von Rezzori's Memoirs of an Anti-Semite Christopher Hitchens...