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May 2013

May 14, 2013

An Army (trend) of one (or maybe two)

There’s an old journalism joke that goes, “Q: How do journalists count? A: One, two,...

May 13, 2013

Death penalty in Cleveland horrors? Wait, who died?

Once again, let's turn to the dictionary and that tricky word "fetus," which has through...

May 09, 2013

O ye gods! WPost blazes trail in AP heresy (updated)

A reading, according to the Stylebook of the Associated Press. Let us attend. gods and...

May 08, 2013

God’s role in Mark Sanford’s redemption story

God — and South Carolina voters — decided Tuesday to give disgraced former Gov. Mark...

May 03, 2013

The powerful ghost in the death choir story

While I have listened to choirs that have bored me nearly to death with their...

May 02, 2013

Brave religious protestors fight devil in Oak Ridge

My goal is to write a relatively short post about a very, very long Washington...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

From Reuters: Another by-the-book Womenpriests story

At this point, it seems that mainstream journalists have decided that the Womenpriests movement deserves...

April 27, 2013

Baltimore Sun drops ball in profile of a preacher’s son

Here we go again. The following has become a GetReligion mantra, when it comes to...

April 26, 2013

That all-but-missing detail about Jeb Bush’s life

Catholics here in America have a very intense and interesting relationship with the mainstream press....

April 25, 2013

Kidnapped Syrian bishops still missing, despite reports

Horrible news out of Syria, where two Orthodox bishops were kidnapped. There hasn't been enough...

April 24, 2013

Journalism and the first few minutes after childbirth

There is nothing new about journalists arguing about the loaded language that surrounds our public...

April 23, 2013

Behold: A pretty fair tribute to George Beverly Shea

Longtime GetReligion readers may recall that I grew up in Texas in the 1960s and...

April 22, 2013

Womenpriests again: The people vs. paper scenario

Anyone who has ever worked on the religion beat knows the drill. You are writing...

April 19, 2013

In tsunami of Boston info, there are basic faith questions

As the drama keeps unfolding in and around Boston, it's safe to say that journalists...

April 18, 2013

Is Ephesians 6 really about Thatcher’s strength?

Whenever my Washington Journalism Center students start covering speeches and major public events, always I...

April 17, 2013

On Sarah Kliff’s mea culpa on Gosnell (a national story)

If you have been on Twitter in the past week or so, you probably know...

April 16, 2013

Out front: the stigma of mental illness

In 2011, I traveled to rural Oregon to report on a minister who helped bring...

April 15, 2013

M-O-D-E-S-T: A key word for Annette the Catholic

As you would expect in a world that remains obsessed with all things Baby Boomer,...

April 12, 2013

That ghost in Dr. Ben Carson’s, well, moral theology

The folks who edit and operate the newspaper that lands in my front yard are...

April 10, 2013

Mainstream press on Gosnell: adjust the framing

Yes, there's more. Abortionist Kermit Gosnell is on trial in Philadelphia for killing a female...

April 10, 2013

Memory eternal: The faith and times of McCandlish Phillips

If you wanted to know who John McCandlish Phillips was, as a New York Times...

April 09, 2013

Faith, fear and the Holocaust

Back in March, this title on a New York Times news analysis grabbed my attention:...

April 09, 2013

Abortion, rights, viewpoint discrimination and Johns Hopkins

One of the most awkward and painful truths in American higher education is that it...

April 04, 2013

Pod people: One more Easter home run

As most of you know, Sunday was an important religious holiday. In my "All hope...

April 04, 2013

Flash! Cardinal says all people created in God’s image

In a way, the existence of the short New York Times story that ran with...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

So what was Pope Francis up to on Holy Thursday?

So, this pope vs. pope theme has been building, in mainstream coverage, during the amazing...

March 26, 2013

Winners and losers in our do-it-yourself religion era

No one on the national religion-news scenes writes with more vigor and enthusiasm about America's...

March 26, 2013

Polyamory, pessimism and other same-sex marriage ink

After years of pointing out how unbelievably unprofessional the journalism of same-sex marriage coverage was,...

March 25, 2013

So, how did Brittney Griner end up at Baylor?

Trust me when I say that I am very, very aware, after nearly a decade...

March 23, 2013

One-sided look at controversial Baptist flock in Charlotte

It has been quite some time since I have used an old GetReligion term (Cheers!),...