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October 2013

October 15, 2013

Pay no attention to Rand Paul (or Christian persecution!)

A Washington Post Politics news blog on Senator Rand Paul's appearance before the Value Voters...

October 09, 2013

Got news? Concerning Catholic priests, Mass and padlocks

Because of my background in church-state studies, for the past third of a century or...

October 08, 2013

Mormons softening opposition to homosexuality … or not

If you enjoy quality journalism, feel free to skip an Associated Press story out today on...

October 07, 2013

Hey, LA Times, there’s more to HHS fight than Hobby Lobby

First things first: I have to admit that I almost choked on my diet cherry...

October 04, 2013

Pod people: Deja vu on global persecution of Christians

As a rule, I don't discuss the contents of one of my new Scripps Howard...

October 04, 2013

Sarajevo census blues

"Context is king" is a catch phrase that summarizes the critique offered in many of...

October 03, 2013

Tom Clancy: That Baltimore Catholic and his generic beliefs

As I have mentioned many times, Baltimore culture is both historically Catholic and very liberal...

October 01, 2013

NYTimes reverts to using vague labels in Texas science war

It's time for a GetReligion post linked to press coverage of biology, textbooks, God and...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Breaking! Politician says Christianity is only true religion

A headline from the Washington Post: E.W. Jackson says non-Christians are engaged in 'some sort...

September 25, 2013

Taking a legal walk in a church’s non-religious woods

For decades, I have been covering stories involving clashes between religious organizations and state and...

September 22, 2013

Pod people: Religion and mass shootings

The Crossroads podcast this week was devoted to discussion of covering shootings. And in the...

September 20, 2013

Intended consequences — The Times & Jewish Jerusalem

Choosing determines all human decisions. In making his choice man chooses not only between various...

September 13, 2013

Hey AP: Does anyone know why Terry Jones was arrested?

If you have spent much time studying First Amendment cases you will know that many...

September 11, 2013

AFP gives Maalula its due

It was my intention today to look at religion news coverage of the anniversary of...

September 11, 2013

Ghost in that NYTimes Justice Kennedy hagiography

It's time for a quick dip into my unusually thick GetReligion folder of guilt, that...

September 09, 2013

Is a global fast for Syria a local news story?

According to Catholic News Agency: Pope Francis made a global petition on Sept. 1 asking...

September 06, 2013

Bloomberg’s totally unbiased abortion story

The best construction I can put on the article we're about to look at is...

September 04, 2013

Hey AP: Where is religious left on religious liberty issues?

A long, long time ago, 1998 to be precise, I wrote a column marking the...

September 03, 2013

PBS: Understanding Syria (minus any nasty religion stuff)

So here we go again. This weekend I mentioned an online explainer piece served up...

September 03, 2013

Jake Tapper on opinion journalism masquerading as news

I'm a longtime fan of Jake Tapper of CNN, and formerly of ABC News. I...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Off to war again. But a just one?

Everyone ready for another war? Ready or not, it appears that we are about to...

August 29, 2013

On poverty, race, families and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Other than arguments about the United States becoming entangled in Syria, and Miley Cyrus coming...

August 27, 2013

Got news? Mother Jones on ghosts in FBI’s Hasan probe

Your GetReligionistas normally do not spend much time looking at ideological media outlets, such as...

August 24, 2013

Religion and the 1963 March on Washington

August 28 is the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. There's a huge...

August 23, 2013

What do Egyptians really mean when they say ‘sharia’?

One of the major themes in GetReligion posts about Islam over the past decade has...

August 23, 2013

Americans prejudiced against Al Jazeera?

The new cable news channel Al Jazeera America is drawing a lot of major media...

August 21, 2013

Interesting Rowan Williams apology: And important, too

Let us return, for a moment, to that interesting quote the other day from the...

August 20, 2013

LATimes sees the layers of threats against Copts in Egypt

The dominant story coming out of Egypt right now continues, and with good cause, to...

August 19, 2013

Missing half of America’s changing ecumenical landscape

A long, long, long time ago I covered a press conference featuring leaders of the...

August 16, 2013

What did Pope Tawadros say? When did he say it? (updated)

At the pivotal event announcing the fall of President Mohamed Morsi, a number of symbolic...