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April 2014

April 27, 2014

Is Mehmet Ali Agca crazy or just a bad Catholic?

The upcoming canonizations of Blessed John XXIII and Blessed John Paul II have generated some very...

April 25, 2014

Buddhists boldly bully buzzed Brits

The obnoxious Englishman abroad is a well loved story in the British press. The opprobrium...

April 24, 2014

More on politics, sin and Louisiana’s kissing congressman

For anyone unfamiliar with Rep. Vance McAllister, he's a Louisiana congressman who ran on a...

April 23, 2014

WPost team looks at politics in 2014, sees zero folks in pews

It's time to set the wayback (actually, it's WABAC) machine for the year 2003, when...

April 17, 2014

About those evangelical whispers on same-sex marriage

As you would imagine, your GetReligionistas are never eager to critique the work of previous...

April 16, 2014

Is this Bible legislation legal? Quick, call and ask my pastor!

No fooling, the following lede comes not from the satire publication The Onion but from...

April 15, 2014

Politics, sin and serious reporting in La. bayou country

As I've shared before, I spent a few years of my early childhood in West...

April 15, 2014

That ‘mysterious’ NYTimes stance on Boko Haram

Here we go again. There has been another horrific act of violence in Nigeria with...

April 10, 2014

Pod people: ‘Pinko’ Pat Buchanan and the Daily Mail

Heavy breathing this week from London's Daily Mail, which has denounced American political commentator Patrick...

April 10, 2014

Dear Sun editors: Do you favor a state-endorsed faith or not?

Anyone who has been paying attention to American public life in recent decades knows that...

April 08, 2014

Florida Today on missing Bibles at the Missing Man Table

McCarthyism is alive and doing quite well in America, a scan of this week's newspapers...

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

No peace in our time for the Ukraine

One hundred years from now, when the history of these past few months in the...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

When you wish upon a trend … it’s no longer news

Sometimes, anecdotes are a wellspring for indepth reporting. Other times, it just leads to wishful...

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

They didn’t even agree on what they disagreed on

Can you have a meeting of minds when you don’t agree on what you discussed...

March 27, 2014

World Vision finds that new crack in modern evangelicalism

So what about that World Vision story? Several things need to be said right up...

March 25, 2014

On Hobby Lobby, how does the Supreme Court measure up?

Aaaaiiieeeee! More "devout Catholics!" No, wait. The Washington Post seems here to be using the...

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 21, 2014

Boo! No ghosts in WSJ coverage of rural-urban divide

In a 2006 column about my grandparents, I reflected on my rural upbringing: I close...

March 20, 2014

Back in the USSR! Izvestia on the Crimea

Save for Mitt Romney, no one -- in my opinion, at least -- appears likely...

March 14, 2014

Did Satan cast a spell on Associated Press copy desk?

Over the past decade, more and more hoops fanatics have decided that ESPN is ruining...

March 13, 2014

Concerning all those angry white married men in pews

It's mid-term election time, which means that it's time, once again, for the mainstream press...

March 12, 2014

Good news: Generic nuns released in Syria!

For three months now, members of my parish just south of Baltimore have been praying...

March 09, 2014

Carry on and Keep quiet when reporting on religion in China

"Why does the press soft pedal links between terrorism and Islam?" was the question under...

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 05, 2014

Silence about terrorism and Islam in the Kunming attack

What was it about the murder of 29 men, women and children on Saturday at...

March 05, 2014

Attention NYTimes: Boko Haram has made its goals clear

There is much to commend in the recent New York Times report that ran under...

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...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Got news? So what’s RFRA got to do with Arizona?

For the past 20 years or so, while watching more and more debates over the...