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January 2014

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...

January 17, 2014

LATimes pours out its love for the ‘spiritual’ Williamson

A positive news story about a political newcomer isn't unusual. Newspapers and television outlets do...

January 15, 2014

Whoa! Was John Kerry being too messianic or Messianic?

Holy dictionary! Talk about leaving a crucial term in a story undefined, unexplained, unattributed or...

January 15, 2014

Wind of change comes sweeping down the plain

My home state of Oklahoma made big news Tuesday when a federal judge struck down...

January 14, 2014

WPost whoppers about the Muslim Brotherhood

Claims of bias and inaccurate reporting have dogged the Western press's coverage of Egypt since...

January 12, 2014

Concerning that strange, lost Sports Illustrated Tebow epic

We are running out of football Sundays in this National Football League season, so I...

January 10, 2014

Really? Editors who don’t know about the ‘reindeer rules’?

Sorry about this, folks, but we need to take a quick glance back at a...

January 04, 2014

NPR stumbles on GOP and Darwinian orthodoxy

Here's a shocker, but not really. More Democrats than Republicans believe in evolution, or so...

January 03, 2014

Will Pope Francis embrace all the ‘progressive’ nuns?

Journalists are rarely true prophets, but they often try to look into the future and...

January 02, 2014

Are there any culture wars inside the Great Gray Lady?

Here's a safe prediction for 2014: Look for another year with tough culture wars cases...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Haaretz and Jewish resistance to the Holocaust

Do you remember Tom Lehrer, the composer/comedian/mathematician? I have long loved his music, which I...

December 30, 2013

Asking the nasty, logical question about that Utah judge

It's often like the force of gravity in American politics and it has been gaining...

December 29, 2013

LATimes: ‘Congregationalist’ Obama quotes Pope Francis

This is what passes for news in Washington these days: an immensely famous politician is...

December 23, 2013

Pod people: Time’s betrayal of liberalism

Time magazine's exercise in gay agitprop was the focus of Thursday's Get Religion's Crossroads podcast....

December 23, 2013

HHS ‘religious employer’ definition changed? (updated)

It would be hard to find a city in American that contains more historic Catholic...

December 18, 2013

Liberal media? Yes, say some journalists

I caught this news via a tweet from Mark Hemingway, half of the former GetReligion...

December 18, 2013

Ghosts in those one-sided reports about victims in Syria

Rare is the day that I do not receive at least one or two emails...

December 17, 2013

Latest coverage from the church of The New York Times

Few news consumers would be surprised that the journalists at Baptist Press frame their coverage...

December 16, 2013

WPost hints at religious ghosts in India’s rape crisis

Several years ago, during a tour to promote The Media Project book called "Blind Spot:...

December 16, 2013

Isn’t that special? Satan pays a visit to the Bible Belt (updated)

When the devil issues a press release, the media pay attention. Satan has stirred a...

December 15, 2013

Pod people: Much ado, nothing new, Merry Christmas to you

Santa scored big in Texas schools this week. Free speech, meanwhile, ruled it a tie....

December 13, 2013

Time takes sides in India’s sex wars

Time magazine reports India's Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the nation's colonial era...

December 12, 2013

LATimes asks some of the crucial Cardinal Mahony questions

If you were going to design a Catholic cardinal (as opposed to an Episcopal Church...

December 12, 2013

Santa Claus is coming … to Texas schools

No more winter parties in Wichita Falls, nor holiday trees in Houston: Schoolchildren in the...

December 10, 2013

Concerning plastic reindeer and ‘Merry Christmas’ rules

MARY ASKS: What happened to saying “Merry Christmas”? Is the move to saying “Happy Holidays”...

December 06, 2013

Mandela the sinner? Mandela the prophet? Yes, cover both

One of the greatest mysteries in life is the moral complexity that is often found...

December 06, 2013

The Methodist roots of Nelson Mandela

Comrade. Leader. Prisoner. Negotiator. Statesman. A giant banner outside the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg —...

December 05, 2013

Reporters: beware of Greeks bearing gay gifts

The essence of life, its meanings, symbols and motives, can be found in television; reporting...

December 04, 2013

A same-sex marriage story that makes you go hmmmmm …

Here at GetReligion, we've repeatedly highlighted the apparent new normal on mainstream media coverage of same-sex...

December 03, 2013

Viva la Eurorévolution

Religion ghosts haunt the stories out of Kiev this week, but the Western press has...