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April 2014

April 22, 2014

The Atlantic slips — somehow — inside mind of Benedict XVI

During the annual pre-Easter season of snarky or mildly negative religion stories, I think that...

April 21, 2014

Nice but, at times, confusing news on Virginia Anglican wars

Inspiring, uplifting stories have been hard to find in recent decades in the world of...

April 18, 2014

What would Jesus tip? Be sure to ask … secular ethicists!?

.@TipsForJesus still leaves $$$, so for #Easter, we asked ethicists - is it moral?

April 18, 2014

New York critics, heaven and a very busy religion week

OK, think of all of the stereotypes that you have heard about elite critics in...

April 11, 2014

So who is Stephen Colbert really? Maybe ask a priest?

The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive A decade ago, when...

April 09, 2014

Washington mudslide disaster: the heart of the matter

More than two weeks after the horrendous mudslide in Oso, Wash., news coverage is taking...

April 07, 2014

What precisely pulled Mickey Rooney back from the abyss?

There are no second acts in American lives. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Oh really?...

April 07, 2014

Did Pope Francis have to go to confession?

RACHAEL ASKS: Who does the pope go to if he has to go to confession...

April 04, 2014

Brendan Eich nailed for his generic, private, anti-gay beliefs?

Yes, yes, yes, I know. Just try to imagine the mainstream press coverage if Brendan...

April 03, 2014

How not to cover a Bible Belt sex-education debate

Let's assume that many if not most professionals in an elite newsroom in Southern California...

April 02, 2014

Lessons from Waco: Some folks just don’t get religion

Even after a small stack of best-selling books, Malcolm Gladwell remains what he has long...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Another vague WPost story on Stephen Strasburg’s soul

Once again, spring has arrived here in the land of the two Beltways -- after...

March 29, 2014

Love and the Woodstock Generation’s ‘spiritual’ pulse

Let's do the math. We will start with these dates: August 15-18, 1969. So if...

March 28, 2014

World Vision, donors, scripture and ‘online speculation’

It took a few days, but the newspaper of record has now produced a solid...

March 28, 2014

Can we let Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist rest in peace?

There's no such thing as bad publicity — at least that's how the saying goes....

March 26, 2014

Neon Trees rocker says he’s gay — and still Mormon

At some point, coming-out stories about faith-claiming celebrities, musicians, politicians — anyone in the public...

March 24, 2014

Is the pope as Catholic as the president? The Times will tell

Long, long ago, I covered religion news during the era in which Cardinal Joseph Bernardin...

March 24, 2014

GR reader contributes a little ghost-spotting of his own

You know that cliché about some stories writing themselves? Well, sometimes a reader fairly writes...

March 22, 2014

Pod people: To the end of the secular universe and beyond!

Imagine that you are caught in the middle of the following puzzle. You are a...

March 20, 2014

Memory eternal: Metropolitan Philip’s life was a story

Anyone who has worked on the religion beat for more than, well, a week knows...

March 19, 2014

Say what!? A Phelps story even Joe Friday would approve

Bad journalism makes for good GetReligion posts. See "'Fred Phelps has been excommunicated' and other...

March 19, 2014

Just another generic do-gooder on a Baltimore pro team

At this point, I have just about decided that the editors of The Baltimore Sun...

March 19, 2014

Do journalists need to crank up the Phelps vitriol? Really?

At this point, it's pretty clear that coverage of the demise of the Rev. Fred...

March 16, 2014

Dominican posts handy guide to Pope Francis press myths

Every now and then a scribe at some other weblog (and we're not just talking...

March 13, 2014

Pod people: There really are two sides to every story, folks

The stories we critique here at GetReligion usually fall into one of two categories. First...

March 10, 2014

After more bullets in Baltimore: ‘Why couldn’t God stop this?’

Long ago, I was talking to an inner-city pastor (a priest, actually) in Denver who...

March 10, 2014

Could the pope of Rome ever be Jewish?

ELIZABETH ASKS: Isn’t it possible for the Pope to be Jewish? And if the Catholic...

March 07, 2014

What can we make of the prayers of Oscar Pistorius?

When it comes to famous Bible passages, even those favored by athletes, 1 Corinthians 9:...

March 07, 2014

Kentucky church gun giveaway story shoots straight

Churches offering free items, services or even doughnuts to their neighbors isn't news. When they...

March 06, 2014

AP finally spikes infamous Nazi Christian Youth (not) photo

It took a while, but the final shoe dropped the other day in the mysterious...