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June 2013

June 26, 2013

That stark divide in Catholics in America and on high court

Shortly before Barack Obama reached the White House, pollster John C. Green of the University...

June 26, 2013

Clear eyes, full heart, can’t stop advocating for abortion

Last night, reporters were very excited to tweet extensively about an abortion filibuster going on...

June 24, 2013

Journalism highs and lows: Christianity and gays edition

I'm elated to be able to highlight a wonderful article headlined "Christians' views vary on...

June 24, 2013

Attention liberals: Blasphemy cases on the rise in Egypt

As I have said numerous times, I cannot imagine how hard it must be to...

June 19, 2013

The New York Times hides abortion editorial on front page

Yesterday after the House of Representatives voted 228 to 196 to limit abortions after 20...

June 18, 2013

BBC attacks major same-sex marriage stereotype (updated)

Here inside the Beltway, a kind of nervous hush has settled over the church-state battlefield...

June 16, 2013

Pod people: media struggles mightily with abortion coverage

On this week's Crossroads, host Todd Wilken and I discussed that embarrassing BuzzFeed confusion --...

June 15, 2013

Hurrah: CNN names some of the ghosts in Gezi Park

The coverage of events in Turkey roll on and on and the mainstream press continues...

June 14, 2013

Got news? Is a global ‘war on Christianity’ newsworthy?

Would it be newsworthy if a U.S. Senator claimed in a public address that American...

June 13, 2013

Child euthanasia in the European press

A front page story in the Monday edition of the Brussels's daily De Morgen on a...

June 13, 2013

Holy Scouts! Southern Baptists didn’t do what we expected!

So, when push came to shove, what did the Southern Baptist Convention decide to do...

June 12, 2013

Secular and religious symbols lost in many Turkey reports

I have been reading the mainstream coverage of the events unfolding in Turkey from the...

June 11, 2013

Should the press blame Catholic teachers for its ignorance?

One common complaint we hear from readers is that reporters, when caught messing up some...

June 09, 2013

Political reporters learn about St. Augustine. Chaos ensues.

On Friday, Angus Dwyer wrote on Twitter: You'll never guess what uncontroversial Christian doctrine this...

June 07, 2013

Why did a Catholic Raven skip White House visit? (updated)

Let's create a journalism parable. Let's say that there is a Republican president in office...

June 05, 2013

WPost Style manages to print an interesting EWTN story

Whenever your GetReligionistas pick on the Style gods at The Washington Post -- primarily with...

June 05, 2013

Dueling Christian coverage, or Ira Glass vs. National Journal

Above is a nice little snippet of an Ira Glass interview. Interview of Ira Glass,...

June 04, 2013

We’ve found the next enemy: adoptive families

When my husband and I began the adoption process, we had no idea how controversial...

June 04, 2013

Evangelicalism is political, but not a political movement

How many political issues do American evangelicals care about? Apparently, just two: abortion and same-sex...

June 03, 2013

Pod people: Concerning the IRS and the God squads

It's a basic fact of life in American politics that nothing fires up the non-profit...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Media coverage of religious profiling

So tmatt has us all doing this experiment of reading a daily paper. I haven't...

May 28, 2013

Pope Francis’ affinity for liberation theology — wait, what?

For this post, we're not going to critique past the first sentence of this New...

May 27, 2013

Does the president, and the press, get theodicy?

There’s an old joke preachers tell about the man who was depressed and opened the...

May 24, 2013

After the Boy Scouts? For a few, camping with doctrine

When considering the forces pulling at the Boy Scouts of America, one thing journalists really...

May 24, 2013

Yo, Politico: IRS commits — not violates — sins

Isn't it interesting how unfamiliar some folks are with religious language? A reporter passed on...

May 21, 2013

Catho-style

Let me draw your attention to this fascinating article in the Parisian weekly news magazine...

May 19, 2013

Downplaying the canonization of Christians martyred by Muslim invaders?

In a recent post about an error in a story about a new saint, readers...

May 18, 2013

IRS scandal and ‘easy’ religion ghosts

On a recent Crossroads podcast, host Todd Wilken remarked with interest on how many...

May 17, 2013

Pod people: Define ‘fetus’ and give three examples

The first question I faced, in this week's "Crossroads" interview, sounded relatively simple: Why did...

May 16, 2013

Protip: Religious liberty is a civil liberty

Let's begin this post with a quick definition from Burton's Legal Thesaurus, 4th edition: civil...