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July 2014

July 30, 2014

God, Tennessee, culture and that (ironic) red-flannel shirt

Once again, the oh-so-bookish politician cloaked in that red plaid shirt is touring the complex...

July 30, 2014

Members mourn Atlanta church; why don’t they talk?

When a congregation has to leave its church building, it's like moving away from home....

July 28, 2014

Why do some Protestants teach “young earth” chronology?

ANNE ASKS: What is the explanation for today’s “young earth” movement among evangelicals? THE RELIGION...

July 28, 2014

Migrant children crossing the border: the religion angle

Amid the ongoing headlines - mostly political - over the thousands of migrant children crossing...

July 25, 2014

NYTimes inside private GOP session on abortion strategy?

Apparently, this past spring, the Republican National Committee held a closed-door meeting in which a...

July 22, 2014

Pod people: Are all political liberals also on moral left?

Every now and then, Issues, Etc., host Todd Wilken take and I off in one...

July 21, 2014

How should we define — and assess — atheism?

DANIEL ASKS: Is it becoming possible to be religious without believing in god? (the lower-case...

July 21, 2014

Big news report card: Oklahoma same-sex marriage ruling

Give the New York Times an F for its sketchy coverage of an appeals court...

July 21, 2014

Yo editors: Can the state pay Catholics to help immigrants?

As usual, there was a stack of Baltimore Sun newspapers waiting for me at the...

July 20, 2014

LATimes shreds old-school language in religious liberty story

The following information cannot be examined too many times during the media storm that has...

July 18, 2014

NYTimes warns: Evangelistic speech near the National Mall!

Are there any GetReligion readers out there who remember the mini-media storm back in 1999...

July 17, 2014

On Hobby Lobby, explain that ‘deeply held religious belief’

You got so close, Philadelphia Inquirer. You got so close to a fair, enlightening news...

July 11, 2014

Do the words of the Dalai Lama matter to all Buddhists?

CNN reports the Dalai Lama --the spiritual leader of Tibet -- has urged his co-religionists...

July 08, 2014

The Boston Globe veers into the doctrines of ‘Kellerism’

Just the other day, I heard a long-time GetReligion reader use a very interesting new...

July 07, 2014

How does that HHS mandate ruling affect American religion?

THE RELIGION GUY EXPLAINS: So far, no-one has yet posted a question on the June...

July 07, 2014

Sun leaves Hobby Lobby out of its timely higher-wages story

So, are there any Hobby Lobby stores in the greater Baltimore area? Yes, it appears...

July 06, 2014

Pod people: White House vs. the Wheaton College covenant

From the very beginning, some mainstream news organization have -- appropriately so -- emphasized that...

July 03, 2014

Attention editors: Is there a ‘Little Sisters’ case in your area?

While the post-Hobby Lobby meltdown continues on the cultural and journalistic left -- this New...

July 01, 2014

And the Baltimore Hobby Lobby angle is … the Little Sisters

All news is local. That's one of the first laws that journalists quote whenever we...

July 01, 2014

NYTimes revisits high court’s abortion buffer zone ruling

In grading first-day coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court striking down a Massachusetts abortion buffer...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Roadmaps should guide us, including through Sudan

Sudan may be hard for geography-challenged Americans to find on a map, but Reuters --...

June 27, 2014

Big news report card: Grading abortion buffer zone coverage

___________________________________ ___________________________________ As my GetReligion colleague Jim Davis highlighted this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court on...

June 24, 2014

Journalism, facts and the fires of hell (revisited)

Without a theory the facts are silent, the economist F. A. Hayek has written. That...

June 24, 2014

Torture lost to Mafia coverage, at least in news on pope talks

If the coverage of Pope Francis this weekend was any indication, the Mafia is more...

June 23, 2014

The track record when atheists wield political power?

DUANE’S QUESTION: He’d like to know what The Religion Guy was talking about in this...

June 19, 2014

All Catholics oppose death penalty and all Baptists favor it?

In the wake of the nation's first executions since Oklahoma's botched lethal injection, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...

June 17, 2014

Politico’s long-but-shallow exposé on Hobby Lobby family

Cue the dramatic music. Politico has a breathless, 2,200-word profile of the Greens — the...

June 17, 2014

Jihadists in Iraq: NYTimes reporting gets it right

After calling out the New York Times for misreporting several stories, I'm tempted to say...

June 16, 2014

Do religions influence China’s atheistic rulers?

MADDIE ASKS: How much of ... eastern and western religions have had an influence on...

June 16, 2014

The Godbeat: Cry for a renewed emphasis on the liberal arts

Let's flash back for a moment to the press coverage of the dramatic fall of...