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June 2013

June 21, 2013

Round two: How not to report on a miracle

Being recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church is a difficult process -- almost...

June 20, 2013

What about those prayers for Dwyane Wade’s pains?

Greetings, GetReligion sports fans. Anyone who has been following the news lately knows that the...

June 19, 2013

Daily Beast: Bridezillas vs. old-fashioned ties that bind

And now for something completely different. Yes, I am about to praise an article published...

June 18, 2013

BBC attacks major same-sex marriage stereotype (updated)

Here inside the Beltway, a kind of nervous hush has settled over the church-state battlefield...

June 17, 2013

Chicago photographer waits for new assignment from God

So, who has been following the drama that unfolded early this month up in Chicago,...

June 17, 2013

Crush Davis wrestles with anger issues, with God’s help

I realize that GetReligion readers have repeatedly demonstrated their lack of interest in the world...

June 14, 2013

Got news? Is a global ‘war on Christianity’ newsworthy?

Would it be newsworthy if a U.S. Senator claimed in a public address that American...

June 13, 2013

On Tim Tebow, ‘spirituality’ and stating the obvious

Here we go again, sort of. Now, I live in the land of purple and...

June 12, 2013

Fundamental misunderstandings of ‘fundamentalism’

When it comes to religious terms, you would be hard pressed to find a word...

June 10, 2013

Is the ‘New Evangelization’ a laughing matter?

In America there are two career fields that have a disproportionate number of agnostics and...

June 07, 2013

Ghosts in interview with Navy SEAL sniper’s widow

This past weekend, The Dallas Morning News ran an in-depth story on Taya Kyle, widow of slain...

June 07, 2013

Why did a Catholic Raven skip White House visit? (updated)

Let's create a journalism parable. Let's say that there is a Republican president in office...

June 06, 2013

Boomers are killing themselves. Why?

Tuesday's front page of the Washington Post had a collection of interesting stories above the...

June 06, 2013

When a pastor has an affair and nobody’s talking

A megachurch pastor resigns after admitting an affair. That sounds like a news story, right?...

June 04, 2013

Hey Washington Post: There’s only one (gay) Islam? Really?

Anyone who has been paying attention to debates about the future of the Boy Scouts...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Why can’t press get religion, when covering black churches?

Let's face it. The mainstream press really struggles when trying to cover life in African-American...

May 30, 2013

The big questions facing that out gay Catholic priest

It is my experience, through my decades on the religion beat, that liberal Catholics genuinely...

May 29, 2013

Hanging out with Sheryl Crow and her kids — where?

While I have not lived in Nashville (yet), I have spent a lot of time...

May 28, 2013

Haunted story or not? On vampires, Satanism and murder

Day after day, the stunning story of young Morgan Lane Arnold has unfolded in the...

May 27, 2013

Gosh! Finding meaning in great Russian literature?

I spent most of last week on the other side of the planet (a Media...

May 27, 2013

Does the president, and the press, get theodicy?

There’s an old joke preachers tell about the man who was depressed and opened the...

May 24, 2013

Mormonism is a religion, not just a culture

For people serious about their faith, religious beliefs tend not only to influence other types...

May 22, 2013

Oklahoma tornado doctor: a bundle of vague faith

The Oklahoman, my hometown newspaper and former employer, is rising to the occasion in its coverage...

May 22, 2013

A quiverfull of kudos for the BBC

As an Evangelical in the media, I’m sympathetic to the struggle journalists have with reporting on...

May 21, 2013

The faith and resiliency of Oklahomans

Just before noon Monday, my two younger children and I drove along Interstate 35 through...

May 21, 2013

That’s one very, very poor headline about the pope

As I have stressed many times here at GetReligion, it's important for readers to understand...

May 20, 2013

Brittany Griner: ESPN gets close to key question

Truth be told, I still think that the question I asked a few weeks ago...

May 17, 2013

One, two, trend: Godbeat pros changing jobs!

Here at GetReligion, we focus mainly on critiquing the mass media's coverage of religion news....

May 17, 2013

A nun, some nukes and a haunted holy ghost story

So a nun and two peace activists walk into a nuclear facility ... It’s not...

May 16, 2013

Victoria’s Secret is way sexier than faith details

At first glance, the current mini-wave of news coverage of former underwear model Kylie Bisutti...