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August 2012

August 26, 2012

Attention: Your next must-read sports piece

Stop whatever you are doing. If you read one story this week, make it this...

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 25, 2012

Pod People: Romney, abstinent New Yorkers and (almost) Randy Travis

On the latest Issues, Etc. podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discuss my recent post on...

August 22, 2012

Mormon Mitt Romney goes to church — with reporters!

Mitt Romney's surprising decision to allow reporters to follow him into church Sunday drew a...

August 21, 2012

The Economist chides Catholic Church on its finances

When a story uses extra adjectives or adverbs to pretty up a story, you know...

August 20, 2012

Revisiting tribes, sacred land and holy ghosts

Over the weekend, I complained about the holy ghosts in a New York Times story...

August 19, 2012

Mitt Romney, consumer of sinful ice cream

As all loyal GetReligion readers know, sometimes we see things make it into news print...

August 18, 2012

What exactly do these tribal members hold sacred?

Take a moment and peruse this fascinating New York Times report about disputed oil drilling on a...

August 17, 2012

Tebow at home (in church) in the Big Apple?

You know that you have moved into true Bible Belt territory when the locals start...

August 16, 2012

Should abortion get some coverage, maybe?

Two deaths this week give the media a chance to cover significant changes in women’s...