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March 2014

March 12, 2014

Good news: Generic nuns released in Syria!

For three months now, members of my parish just south of Baltimore have been praying...

March 12, 2014

Concerning that gathering called by the Ecumenical Patriarch

"Journalism is the first rough draft of history," according to a famous quote by publisher...

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...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Got news? A Baptist emerges as acting president of Ukraine

The news rolls on in Ukraine, with leaders of the opposition attempting to get some...

February 24, 2014

Dear journalists: When in Ukraine, try talking to Ukrainians

Hearing the confessions of soldiers shortly before they go into combat is one of the...

February 24, 2014

Keeping Lent: Not once a year but four times

TERRY (YES, that TERRY) ASKS: Whatever happened to the Lenten disciplines that used to be...

February 21, 2014

What’s God got to do with it — in Maidan square?

I've said it once, twice, and I'll say it again -- there is more than...

February 19, 2014

Balkan absurdist reporting by Reuters

At Get Religion it is usually considered bad form to criticize wire service reports for...

February 19, 2014

Orthodox voices: Who is chanting what in Kiev right now?

The images continue to pour out of Kiev. Right now there are flames rising high...

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 29, 2014

Pod people: Memory and revolution in Kiev

All Ukraine, All the time is not our moto at GetReligion. Though you may be...

January 29, 2014

Got news? Prayers and poetry in the Ukraine standoff

The daily march of the headlines from Kiev continues. The other day, I offered up...

January 27, 2014

Finding a faith angle in the Ukraine

A spate of wire service photos from the demonstrations in Kiev may have awakened the...

January 26, 2014

That cross in Kiev: What George Conger said, once again

Simply stated, it is one of the most haunting Associated Press photographs that I have...

January 15, 2014

Whoa! Was John Kerry being too messianic or Messianic?

Holy dictionary! Talk about leaving a crucial term in a story undefined, unexplained, unattributed or...

January 14, 2014

WPost whoppers about the Muslim Brotherhood

Claims of bias and inaccurate reporting have dogged the Western press's coverage of Egypt since...

January 09, 2014

News flash! AP ends the Great Schism of 1054!

Many moons ago -- just under a quarter of a century -- I covered a...

January 06, 2014

Hail Epiphany and farewell to Christmas (and white Santas)

First things first: I hope that readers who are into that whole Christian calendar had...

December 2013

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 18, 2013

Ghosts in those one-sided reports about victims in Syria

Rare is the day that I do not receive at least one or two emails...

December 11, 2013

NYTimes on Ukraine ‘ghost’: Great minds like a think?

Cause-and-effect is difficult to prove sometimes, but it is curious how things follow in a...

December 05, 2013

RNS: It’s no rumor; Turks want Hagia Sophia as a mosque

Talk about a trip into my guilt file. I just did a quick search in...

December 05, 2013

Reporters: beware of Greeks bearing gay gifts

The essence of life, its meanings, symbols and motives, can be found in television; reporting...

December 03, 2013

Missing nuns, missing details, in Maaloula (updated)

Trust me on this. I know that it must be impossible for journalists to cover...

December 03, 2013

Viva la Eurorévolution

Religion ghosts haunt the stories out of Kiev this week, but the Western press has...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Reuters skips a key detail in Israel’s wedding wars — divorce

Everybody loves a wedding, or so culture would have us believe. However, according to a...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

Got news? Has Kristallnacht come to the Middle East?

There was always an important, yet unstated, idea at the heart of the "On Faith"...

October 23, 2013

The Coptic ghost in those potential flights from Egypt

Let's start with a few journalistic questions. Am I surprised that The New York Times...

October 18, 2013

Lost in mobs, fire, guns and ink: Is Christ of Sinai safe?

What is the Mona Lisa worth? At the time of their destruction by the Taliban,...