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March 2014

March 04, 2014

Mysterious role of religion in Newsweek resurrection?

It's hard to miss the religious zinger in this passage from a New York Times...

March 04, 2014

So, AP does its part to pin Nazi salute on Trail Life boys?

I doubt that many news consumers who do a quick read of the recent Associated...

March 03, 2014

Time: McConaughey’s ‘confounding’ speech at Oscars

Did you hear that awkward sound at the Oscars last night, the one right after...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

If at first you don’t succeed … find another source

Tis a lesson you should heed: Try, try again. If at first you don't succeed,...

February 26, 2014

So there: Rod Dreher goes and writes a GetReligion post

So, yes, I'll admit that I was a bit disappointed (stage cue: slight choke in...

February 26, 2014

Got news? A Baptist emerges as acting president of Ukraine

The news rolls on in Ukraine, with leaders of the opposition attempting to get some...

February 20, 2014

Concerning all those ‘fake baptisms’ at Elevation Church

Long, long, ago I covered several Billy Graham crusades or other evangelistic efforts linked to...

February 17, 2014

Tears and prayers on camera: Did NBC want the full Oprah?

Anyone who has watched television coverage of tense, painful events has seen it happen. This...

February 17, 2014

Part II of America’s church slide: What to do?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Part I of "Why the slide in the influence of America's churches?" GENE...

February 16, 2014

Seeking the sympathetic critics of Bob Jones University

As any journalist knows, institutions -- secular or religious -- do not like to talk...

February 14, 2014

Got news? The one and only Caesar of Jewish humor

Remember all of those nasty charges by anti-Semites through the years that The New York...

February 13, 2014

Ghosts haunt AP story on Boy Scouts of America

When my oldest son was a Boy Scout, the entire experience was couched in church...

February 13, 2014

Doing right by the pope — and by the readers

What a pleasure it is to see a writer do it right. So it's a...

February 13, 2014

Hollywood’s ‘Noah’ wars: Why not quote the Bible?

Let's face it. That Noah character in Genesis 9 is one pretty wired, complex fellow....

February 12, 2014

Baring their souls: Seeking more coverage on naked church

Strip down this post to its bare essentials, and here's the naked truth: Sometimes the...

February 07, 2014

Pod people: Russell Wilson, ghosts, 10 years of GetReligion

Let's do this one backwards. In a perfect world, the easy way to do mainstream...

February 06, 2014

Were there any ghosts in the Rosenberg diary? You think?

First things first: Anyone who is interested in history, especially the history of the ideas...

February 05, 2014

Got news? Can Christian and atheist swap lives for a month?

Half a world away from my Oklahoma home, an experiment just concluded in Australia. An...

February 02, 2014

ESPN spots a ghost in the Seattle-Russell Wilson lovefest

Some GetReligion readers may have noticed that there is a big football game later today....

January 2014

January 31, 2014

New bishop in Harrisburg: One story, one side, one problem

OK, gentle readers, once again I need to stress that the following post on a...

January 31, 2014

Indiana family: Demons, possession and exorcism, oh my!

It's difficult, if not impossible, to separate the subject of a story from its journalistic...

January 30, 2014

Scoring spiritual points before Super Bowl Sunday

Every year about this time, we face a blitz of profile stories of coaches, athletes,...

January 28, 2014

Why steal the blood of the Blessed Pope John Paul II?

So let's talk about the theft of that relic containing the blood of the Blessed...

January 27, 2014

Debate at NYTimes: Was the March For Life news or not?

One of the most difficult concepts in journalism to communicate to people outside the field...

January 27, 2014

God, prayer and the winner of the Super Bowl

THIS WEEK, the question doesn’t come from a “Religion Q and A” reader but a...

January 24, 2014

Hey NYTimes: Please study the timeline of abuse in Chicago

Back in my graduate-school days, I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, after spending...

January 23, 2014

Concerning that Milbank column and the WPost news report

First of all, to those who have written or tweeted on this: Yes, your GetReligionistas...

January 22, 2014

Time magazine claims that Bible-ness is next to Godliness

An old Salvation Army musical production -- the kind of church entertainment often aimed at...

January 21, 2014

Religion ghost haunts Dodgers’ $215 million ace

In an Associated Press story about his new, $215 million contract, Los Angeles Dodgers ace...

January 19, 2014

On the cautious use of loaded terms such as ‘messianism’

So let's try this again. The other day I wrote about a news report that...