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February 2013

February 07, 2013

GetReligion turns nine: Thoughts on comments and trolls

So, friends and neighbors, if we are going to do some intense navel-gazing here at...

February 06, 2013

About those Orthodox hermits in the Siberian wild

Every now and then, someone sends your GetReligionistas the URL for a story that is...

February 05, 2013

Ugh — when ‘reality’ TV looks inside clergy homes

I know, I know. "The Sisterhood" is a reality television show about pastors' wives. I...

February 03, 2013

Super Bowl: Ray Lewis is Ray Lewis — deal with it

I have said it before and I will say it again. I know that, as...

February 02, 2013

GetReligion turns nine; Newsweek sort of vanishes

So once again, with feeling. Nine years ago today, the Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc clicked...

February 02, 2013

Don’t have a cow over Chick-fil-A, man!

My post on the unlikely friendship between Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy and Campus Pride executive...

February 01, 2013

Dang it, that Ravens executive keeps spouting Godtalk

I get the feeling that many of The Baltimore Sun folks are starting to get...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Megan Fox, glossolalia and AP Style (you read that right)

The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law is a lot of things and...

January 28, 2013

Super Bowl week: Sun misses the Spirit in AP Stylebook

News flash: This may be a shock to GetReligion readers, who are quite cool as...

January 25, 2013

Time for the “March for Life” media debate (updated)

It's that time again -- time for the annual debate about media bias in mainstream...

January 24, 2013

BBC probes Johnny Cash’s vague interest in redemption

The late Johnny Cash was a lot of things at the same time, which has...

January 23, 2013

Digging for news in (some) inauguration rites and wrongs

Few paid much attention when a well-known liberal Episcopal priest, the Rev. Luis Leon, delivered...

January 22, 2013

So what did Cardinal Mahony believe, really?

The news out of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is painful and stunning, especially for...

January 21, 2013

BBC misses religious-liberty ghost in St. Francisville, La.

Through the years, your GetReligionistas have gone out of our way to note that it's...

January 19, 2013

India and rape: Spotting some tricky ghosts

In about 99 percent of the mainstream news reports you will ever read about India...

January 18, 2013

Scared ‘journalist’ hides in a church, lives to write about it

A few weeks ago, a Twitter post from Tim Townsend, the award-winning religion writer for...

January 16, 2013

A sexual abuse story, complete with a rare glimpse of faith

As strange as it sounds, the goal of this post is to praise The Los...

January 13, 2013

Spot the ghost: An X factor for QB Russell Wilson?

While things are not going very well in his second playoff game with the Seattle...

January 12, 2013

Meet Christian financial guru Dave Ramsey, minus the faith

A decade ago, as a Tennessee-based religion and enterprise writer for The Associated Press, I...

January 11, 2013

Syrian sniper offers thoughts on life, death and faith

Anyone who has been to the Middle East, or who has spent much time talking...

January 09, 2013

Foggy beliefs lead to church-state crisis in hospital

One of my graduate-school professors had a saying that summed up one of the central...

January 07, 2013

Faith, family, fastballs: Dale Murphy’s Hall of Fame bid

He's a man of character with old-fashioned values. He's adored by his wife and eight —...

January 04, 2013

Symbolic defeat for a Christian business in Maryland

After spending more than a week on the road, I returned home -- as always...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

ESPN gets Irvin and his ‘threshing floor’ sermon

Hey! Time for another GetReligion post about religious issues in sports coverage! Can you hear...

December 29, 2012

Yes, before Baltimore, Lori was bishop of Newtown

If the mainstream press has a creed, one of its central tenets is certainly this...

December 27, 2012

Bear QB after RGIII keeps the vague faith

As we roll through the semi-holy football season of minor bowls, I am happy to...

December 25, 2012

Xmas quiet in Jerusalem? Check the Julian calendar

Along with millions of other Americans, I am on the road this fine Christmas Day....

December 22, 2012

Ghost of Notre Dame’s modern-day ‘Rudy’

Is the pope Catholic? Wait. That's not what I wanted to know. Here's my real...

December 20, 2012

Christmas carol wars on the DC Metro — not

Anyone who spends much time on subways and other forms of mass transit knows that...

December 19, 2012

The late Rev. Fred Rogers fills his pastoral role, once again

During the past few days, how many of you have either (a) seen this picture...