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November 2012

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 12, 2012

Is “marriage equality” our term, their’s and everyone else’s?

Back in May, I noticed a curious decision by some media outlets to scare quote...

November 09, 2012

Reporting on gay marriage in Spain

Laying out the front page of the November 7 issue presented a few problems 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 05, 2012

Another visit with the usual “ex-gay” suspects

It's a question that I always know I will hear after a lecture on the...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Hurricanes and political storms, near my desk in D.C.

A long time ago (in digital terms), back at the beginning of this here weblog,...

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 17, 2012

On sex: Smart black Christians vs. you know who

Brace yourselves, GetReligion readers. I am about to do something shocking. I would like to...

October 11, 2012

Baylor grad pushes app for cheaters?

A long, long time ago, I was a journalism major at Baylor University, which, as...

October 09, 2012

About that Archbishop Nienstedt conversion quote (updated)

It's time for another update from the "framing religion as politics" beat, care of The...

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 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 26, 2012

How Many Gays in Hampstead?

Here is a craft question for you, GetReligion readers. No, I don't mean freemasonry but...

September 24, 2012

Editing the soul out of Steubenville, Ohio

When a feature story dominates the Sunday front page of The Washington Post, you know...

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...

September 08, 2012

Key ‘moderate’ Catholic, hailed by choir on left

So The Washington Post ran a story the other day that made me feel very...

September 02, 2012

Blunt, messianic language about the Rev. Moon

I will be the first person to admit that I did a double-take when I...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

Paper of record or church bulletin of the left?

The New York Times' outgoing public editor -- Arthur S. Brisbane -- wrote his final...

August 26, 2012

Urban Meyer faces his sins (ESPN offers crickets)

Here we go again. It's almost time for the annual God-and-gridiron tsunami. Athletes and coaches...

August 21, 2012

Catholic priest was ‘assisting’ in a gay wedding?

What we have here, in this short New York Times wedding announcement, is a dangerously...