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August 2013

August 02, 2013

The worst religion story of the year

While struggling to find words to adequately describe the worst religion article of the year,...

August 02, 2013

WPost: Virginia law highlights stupidity of home-schooling

This is the headline that ran on a 2,500-word Washington Post story Sunday: Student's home-schooling highlights...

August 01, 2013

The moral (and news) authority of Desmond Tutu

An article at BBC.com on the launch of a United Nations-backed campaign to promote gay...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Time out for all California sexual-abuse cases?

It's time for a quick dip into tmatt's massive file of GetReligion guilt, the cyber-place...

July 30, 2013

Results vary as media follow Rick Warren’s return

Over the weekend, Rick Warren returned to the pulpit for the first time since his...

July 29, 2013

Snickering at FoxNews while getting duped by ‘Zealot’ author

Many of us who came of age during the birth of New Media are reflexively...

July 27, 2013

Pod people: About those photo ops in Brazil’s slums

Here a photo op, there a photo op, everywhere a papal photo op. The question...

July 26, 2013

NPR’s curiously biased quest for the historical Jesus

Did you know that Jesus wasn't really God? Despite what his disciples claim, he never...

July 25, 2013

A sad note of Orthodox reality in Eastern Europe

It's impossible to know precisely what is happening inside the mind of a politician when...

July 24, 2013

Uncovering part of those church modesty debates

As I have mentioned many times here at GetReligion, Deacon Greg Kandra's blog "The Deacon's...

July 23, 2013

Pope trip: Time to play ‘spot the political sound bite’

The pope is abroad. This means, of course, that it is time to look at...

July 22, 2013

The controversial mind and Lebanese soul of Helen Thomas

As I have mentioned before here at GetReligion, at the time of the Sept. 11...

July 20, 2013

About God and that best/frequent/satisfying sex report …

Every now and then, reseachers/activists in a think tank somewhere pull out a major study...

July 19, 2013

The AP discovers the Christian hipster pastor

Does your pastor wear v-neck shirts, have tattoos on both forearms, and ride a fixed-gear...

July 17, 2013

A top-notch profile of Baptist ethicist, with a few caveats

I really liked Tennessean Godbeat pro Bob Smietana's profile last year of Richard Land, then...

July 15, 2013

About those steroid whispers and slugger Chris Davis

If you have been following major-league baseball this year, then you probably know a little...

July 13, 2013

Pay wall blues: This inspirational SI cover gets religion

Are there any working journalists in this day and age who do not have a...

July 11, 2013

Strangely faith-free story about ministry to feed the poor

For the past two decades, I have spent quite a bit of time driving the...

July 10, 2013

What The Economist Gets Wrong About Calvinist Baptists

Today is the 504th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin (July 10, 1509) --...

July 08, 2013

Can we get some historical context on the canonized popes?

If you're elected Bishop of Rome, you join one of the world's most exclusive lists....

July 07, 2013

Once again: God cures someone, through the prayers of JPII

At this point, I think it's safe to say that almost every story written about...

July 05, 2013

Why atheists who pray should still be called atheists

What do you call someone who reads the Bible, attends church, prays daily, and believes...

July 03, 2013

Painful silences in CBS chat on same-sex marriage rulings

OK, follow me carefully here, because it is especially interesting who passed the following item...

July 03, 2013

Could it be … Satan? Not in the news coverage

When abortion rights supporters showed up at the Texas state capitol to protest, the AP...

July 02, 2013

Nolan Ryan’s son and the F-word

In his 27-year major-league career, Nolan Ryan regularly fired 100-mph fastballs. He pitched seven no-hitters...

July 01, 2013

A tune on gay evangelicals that evangelicals won’t recognize

While working on a recording together, Johnny Cash asked Bob Dylan if he knew "Ring...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Want balanced coverage? USA Today shows how it’s done

A few weeks ago a study on news media coverage by the Pew Research Center...

June 27, 2013

Wait, Baltimore’s archbishop is a national voice on WHAT?

As one would imagine, the editorial team that produces the newspaper that lands in my...

June 25, 2013

Godless congregations copying Christian churches

Every year, approximately 4,000 new churches are started in the U.S. Out of that number,...

June 22, 2013

Media MIA: Mother Dolores Hart’s love for Jesus

It's the question that echoes between the lines of mainstream news features about the life...