Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

GetReligion

Home
Religion News

Politics

Select a Category 5Q+1 Academia Anglicanism Announcements Atheists & Agnostics Baptists Books Business & Economy Catholicism Creeping Fundamentalism Education Ethics Evangelicals Film First Person gays Godbeat Got news? Humor Interviews Islam Journalism Judaism Lutherans Mainline Marriage & family Middle East Mormons Music Nones Orthodoxy Pagans Pentecostalism People Podcasts Politics Pop Culture Race Radio & TV Religion religious liberty Same-sex marriage Science Sex Social Issues Sports Uncategorized Vatican Web/Tech What is this? World World Religions Worship

Select a Month August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 May 2010 July 2009 February 2009 October 2008 July 2008 January 2007 August 2006 July 2006 October 2005

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Got news? White House vs. Little Sisters of the Poor

From coast to coast, the lawyers of religious groups and charities can almost quote the...

December 19, 2012

Bring your swords, and guns, to church

Back in my high school days, my family attended a Church of Christ in Fort...

December 18, 2012

The Guardian does not get Tim Scott

Amongst your GetReligion correspondents I was the last to board the twitter train. Now I...

December 16, 2012

So, ‘broader societal problems’ in Newtown, or not?

It goes without saying that the GetReligion crew has been closely watching the coverage of...

December 14, 2012

Got news? Judge ‘mocks’ Obama’s religious-liberty move

The most control the media have in the news process is determining what stories get...

December 13, 2012

Scratch a German, find a Nazi, the New York Times reports

The end of term is just round the corner with Christmas less than two weeks...

December 11, 2012

Savita’s tragic death and media ethics

The tragic death of Savita Halappananvar continues to produce headlines, particularly in Europe and India....

December 10, 2012

Yahoo! asks Robert Griffin III a rather obvious question

The big news here in Washington, D.C., (other than the mysteries of the U.S. Supreme...

December 09, 2012

Pod people: Same-sex marriage on the march

On this week's "Crossroads" podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discussed Dave Brubeck's sacred music...

December 08, 2012

On same-sex marriage: What is the chief justice thinking?

People who study the dynamics of this U.S. Supreme Court have, from the get-go, assumed...

December 07, 2012

Missing the grasshopper in the stem-cell debate

Master Po: Ha, ha, never assume because a man has no eyes he cannot see....

December 07, 2012

Should churches, left or right, serve as polling places?

Anyone who knows anything about the at times dangerous dance between politics and religion in...

December 07, 2012

West Point cadet quits, citing religion

I've long been fascinated by stories about religious practice at the service academies. My brother...

December 06, 2012

Some journalists waking up to Egyptian realities?

Day after day the news from Egypt seems to get darker and more confusing. This...

December 03, 2012

Unbridled yearning for same-sex marriage

One of the big stories last week was whether the Supreme Court would hear cases...

December 02, 2012

Washington Post’s ghostly top 50 list

It's that time of year when media outlets put out their best of the year...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Quote of the year on Catholics and American politics

I don't know how you feel about anonymous quotes, but, as a rule, I am...

November 30, 2012

Hard-hitting questions for Egypt’s Morsi

The Associated Press brings us the latest from Cairo: Islamists approved a draft constitution for...

November 30, 2012

No Catholics in the new Europe

This is a great country. I've been privileged to live and work abroad, but there...

November 29, 2012

Gov’t RFID tracking: Creepy or mark of the beast?

When I first heard rumblings about school districts in Texas using locator chips to track...

November 28, 2012

Too little news, too much analysis?

A flurry of e-mailed links to religion news stories flies back and forth each day...

November 28, 2012

Sandra Fluke, Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ and tender stories

Time magazine is doing its annual PR blitz for its "Person of the Year." After...

November 27, 2012

Times tries to pin a label on Dorothy Day (updated)

Back in the early 1990s, I had a chance to interview the late Father Ellwood...

November 25, 2012

Times team laughs at all those bitter Texans

Since I grew up in a solidly Baylor family, I have always understood why the...

November 21, 2012

When Obama didn’t ‘presume to know’ Creation details

Yesterday I wrote a jeremiad against the media’s curiously inconsistent approach to science. The hook...

November 20, 2012

Polish anti-Semitism and the press

A new film that premiered last week has resurrected moral questions that some Poles hoped...

November 20, 2012

Accurate Holiday wars update from Santa Monica!

Oh my! We may have a Nativity Lent miracle on our hands! Trust me that...

November 20, 2012

Marco Rubio and the media’s curiously inconsistent approach to science

I wonder if any of our readers have read Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and...

November 17, 2012

Pod people: Red America and Bible Belt atheists

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

November 16, 2012

Preachers and politics: Be careful out there folks …

Today's digest from the Religion News Service (sign up for this very helpful service, if...