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July 2014

July 28, 2014

Migrant children crossing the border: the religion angle

Amid the ongoing headlines - mostly political - over the thousands of migrant children crossing...

July 22, 2014

Pod people: Are all political liberals also on moral left?

Every now and then, Issues, Etc., host Todd Wilken take and I off in one...

July 21, 2014

Yo editors: Can the state pay Catholics to help immigrants?

As usual, there was a stack of Baltimore Sun newspapers waiting for me at the...

July 20, 2014

LATimes shreds old-school language in religious liberty story

The following information cannot be examined too many times during the media storm that has...

July 18, 2014

Changing climate — of church views on the environment

USA Today has been eroding its standard of short, shallow stories. And for a complex...

July 14, 2014

Hero or troubled soul: Dallas pastor takes his life

Right from the start, a long Page 1 story in The Dallas Morning News portrays the...

July 10, 2014

Wrestling with that old Anglican timeline, in South Carolina

Anyone who follows news on the religion beat knows the drill when it comes to...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Pod people: Sometimes editors really need to do the math

I have never been much of a math guy, but sometimes you have to see...

June 20, 2014

What’s in a name? PCA vs. PCUSA

Oh my. My heart goes out to the writer at NBC News' breaking news desk...

June 13, 2014

Axing the wrong questions after Brat-Cantor stunner

There's analysis, and there's hack 'n' slash. When blindsided by the come-from-behind election of David...

June 11, 2014

NYTimes notices old doctrine wars over InterVarsity chapters

The debate started out behind closed doors but quickly jumped into the mainstream press. The...

June 05, 2014

Church to boycott Redskins? Not enough to fill a stadium

The Washington Redskins are changing their name because of its negative connotations, a friend posted...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Boy, you got a prayer in … the drive-thru lane

I'll never forget a sermon I heard as a young boy — mainly because I...

May 27, 2014

United Methodists stand at a ‘tipping point’ — once again

Yes, it's time to head into yet another oldline Protestant summer of sex. This leads...

May 24, 2014

Instructing v. reporting on gay clergy from The Times

What's the difference between advocacy journalism and classical, liberal, some would say "objective" journalism? Advocacy...

May 20, 2014

Generic person of God (or gods) busted for selling fake art

So, if you read a news report about a politician who did something really stupid...

May 20, 2014

That deacon and CBS veteran sacks a Womenpriests ‘story’

Should visitors to GetReligion choose to search our archives for the term "Womenpriests" they will...

May 02, 2014

Sensitive feature looks at caregivers’ work with the dying

Thank God, literally, that not all religion news stories are about terrorists or same-sex marriage...

May 01, 2014

Did Washington Post offer reporting or cheerleading?

The religious left gets sympathetic treatment, not only from a new report by the Brookings...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

WPost team looks at politics in 2014, sees zero folks in pews

It's time to set the wayback (actually, it's WABAC) machine for the year 2003, when...

April 23, 2014

Easter season, check … Chip away at basic beliefs, check

You know all of those news articles you see published every year at Ramadan that...

April 21, 2014

Nice but, at times, confusing news on Virginia Anglican wars

Inspiring, uplifting stories have been hard to find in recent decades in the world of...

April 21, 2014

Here we go again: So was Jesus married or what?

JANET ASKS: What is your opinion on the historicity of the ancient text mentioning Jesus’...

April 17, 2014

About those evangelical whispers on same-sex marriage

As you would imagine, your GetReligionistas are never eager to critique the work of previous...

April 13, 2014

Pod people: So what could reporters cover during Lent?

Long, long ago, back at the beginning of Lent, I put up a post that...

April 09, 2014

The final days march past: Was there any news in Lent 2014?

Let's face it folks. There is a very real possibility that this posts exists as...

April 08, 2014

Baby boomers and (some) traditions for ‘green’ funerals

The other day I wrote a post noting that, in addition to sex, drugs and...

April 07, 2014

Codewords are much easier to find than Waldo

Before dissecting this MSNBC story, let's pause for a round of Spot the Codewords. Start...

April 06, 2014

Pentecostal gap in that LATimes immigration reform story

There was an important interfaith gathering the other day in Los Angeles that allowed some...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

World Vision, donors, scripture and ‘online speculation’

It took a few days, but the newspaper of record has now produced a solid...