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March 2014

March 27, 2014

World Vision finds that new crack in modern evangelicalism

So what about that World Vision story? Several things need to be said right up...

March 25, 2014

Baltimore Sun prints a plug for ‘meditation’ — one form of it

Long ago, I worked in for a newspaper that published a large, large feature story...

March 23, 2014

Surprise! Dallas Morning News finds a Methodist to quote

Once or twice (or maybe three or four or five times) in recent weeks, we...

March 22, 2014

Do skewed churches deserve skewed coverage?

Funny, isn't it? So many people recoiled in horror at the judgmentalism of the Rev....

March 11, 2014

United Methodism doctrine? Think location, location, location

Sherman, please set the controls of the GetReligion WABAC (pronounced "wayback") machine for the year...

March 11, 2014

Giving both sides a voice in Methodist same-sex debate

Maybe you've noticed, but your normally friendly GetReligionistas get grumpy when newspapers write one-sided stories....

March 07, 2014

One thing wrong with that ‘give up one thing for Lent’ thing

I don't know precisely when it happened, but somewhere during the past decade or two...

March 06, 2014

Dallas Morning News advocacy journalism, the prequel

Pardon me, Dallas Morning News. We underestimated you. I'll explain what I mean in a...

March 04, 2014

Dallas paper advocates for Methodist same-sex marriage

Let's try this again. I thought Tamie "wife of this blogger" Ross had a catchy...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

So there: Rod Dreher goes and writes a GetReligion post

So, yes, I'll admit that I was a bit disappointed (stage cue: slight choke in...

February 26, 2014

Mea culpa: Houston, this time the problem was me

I screwed up. In a post Tuesday, I reported wrongly that the Houston Chronicle managed only...

February 25, 2014

Houston, we have a Presbyterian ‘evangelist’ problem (correction)

Correction: The Houston Chronicle's coverage was much more extensive than reported below. Read our apology...

February 11, 2014

United Methodists fighting over gay marriage — period?

Maybe it's because I covered religion in Colorado during the 1980s, but I find it...

February 10, 2014

Why the slide in the influence of America’s churches?

GENE ASKS: What one factor accounts for the indifference so many Americans harbor toward the...

February 03, 2014

Women and men and the Bible and the church

PARK ASKS: What are the major scriptural passages [and interpretations] relative to a complementarian and...

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 16, 2014

Where’s the religion at Washington’s National Cathedral?

The financial difficulties facing the Washington National Cathedral were the subject of a local news...

January 07, 2014

Daily Mail: Welby ‘casts out sin’ in new baptismal rite — not

In my opinion, looking to London's Daily Mail for religion news coverage is rather like looking...

January 06, 2014

Is new Calvinism new news for the New York Times?

Mark Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not...

January 02, 2014

Are there any culture wars inside the Great Gray Lady?

Here's a safe prediction for 2014: Look for another year with tough culture wars cases...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

Asking the nasty, logical question about that Utah judge

It's often like the force of gravity in American politics and it has been gaining...

December 27, 2013

WPost discovers the bleeding obvious about liturgy today

Basil Fawlty: Can't we get you on Mastermind, Sybil? Next contestant: Mrs. Sybil Fawlty from...

December 21, 2013

That oh-so-predictable CNN article on ducks and doctrine

So color me confused. At the moment, CNN is hailing this article -- "Does Phil...

December 16, 2013

So which Bible version is really the most authentic?

DUANE ASKS: There are many different versions of the Bible: King James, New International Version,...

December 07, 2013

Is the media missing out on African-American church news?

Hell hath no fury like a reporter scorned, is my version of the traditional proverb....

December 06, 2013

Mandela the sinner? Mandela the prophet? Yes, cover both

One of the greatest mysteries in life is the moral complexity that is often found...

December 06, 2013

The Methodist roots of Nelson Mandela

Comrade. Leader. Prisoner. Negotiator. Statesman. A giant banner outside the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg —...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Pod people: LA Times cheers for United Methodist ‘reform’

If readers want to know where The Los Angeles Times stands on the issues the...

November 21, 2013

Clash of absolute truths in WPost coverage of Schaefer trial

And this just in. The editorial team of The Washington Post has published a direct...

November 20, 2013

WPost listens to half of the great United Methodist debate

After years of covering the sexuality wars in America's oldline denominations, I am well aware...