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November 2012

November 28, 2012

Sandra Fluke, Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ and tender stories

Time magazine is doing its annual PR blitz for its "Person of the Year." After...

November 13, 2012

Sun’s celebration of brave, pro-gay marriage pastors

One of the big election-day stories in deep-blue, liberal Maryland was the narrow victory for...

November 08, 2012

What is this “American Catholic Church,” anyway?

What we have here is kind of a Son of the WomenPriests story -- with...

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...

November 01, 2012

Missing some fundamental facts on Obama and faith

A week or so ago, I wrote a Scripps Howard News Service column about the...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Here I stand: Martin Luther on film

So while the rest of you are focused on Halloween, we Lutherans are busy celebrating...

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 18, 2012

Church angles matter, in Prince George’s County

The state of Maryland is bluer than blue, when it comes to politics, so it's...

October 18, 2012

Weed is a beautiful gift from God

There is something about writing about marijuana that gets reporters a bit, well, dopey. You...

October 08, 2012

Get hexed? From our ‘no comment’ department

Let me be honest with you. I am not sure how to start this post....

October 03, 2012

Define ‘evangelical’ … Give three examples

Late one night last week, while I was attending a journalism conference in Kiev, I...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Meanwhile, back at AP’s sausage factory

On Thursday, I highlighted a fine piece of journalism produced by The Associated Press' filet...

September 26, 2012

Time to pin new label on Brian McLaren?

If people have long had trouble defining the word "evangelical" -- the Rev. Billy Graham...

September 23, 2012

Americans underestimate Protestant population

A few months ago we looked at a survey that showed that the vast majority...

September 18, 2012

Ghosts in pews of a great old Brooklyn church

Like many other Baby Boomer believers who grew up in the era of ugly-as-sin church...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Helen Parmley, the Dallas diva of the divine

Anyone who knows anything about the history of religion-news coverage in the journalism marketplace knows...

August 26, 2012

Attention: Your next must-read sports piece

Stop whatever you are doing. If you read one story this week, make it this...