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February 2013

February 02, 2013

GetReligion turns nine; Newsweek sort of vanishes

So once again, with feeling. Nine years ago today, the Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc clicked...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

BBC probes Johnny Cash’s vague interest in redemption

The late Johnny Cash was a lot of things at the same time, which has...

January 08, 2013

Religion as code language in the French press

Time for a round of the "name that famous film quote" game. Don't you see...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Everything you know about Christmas is wrong

George just posted about an old story being rehashed for Christmas, which reminded me that...

December 17, 2012

Coming soon to a TV near you: ‘The Bible’

It only took 2,000-plus years, but 'The Bible" is making news. Seriously, both USA Today and...

December 06, 2012

The soul in Dave Brubeck’s jazz

Jazz great Dave Brubeck died yesterday, a day before his 92nd birthday. Along with much...

November 2012

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 02, 2012

Polish heavy metal clashes with mysterious blasphemy law

On some levels, the legal drama unfolding in Poland these days could be called the...

November 01, 2012

Calm down about the Vatican and James Bond Skyfall

It was three years ago that I read a really interesting story in the...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Here I stand: Martin Luther on film

So while the rest of you are focused on Halloween, we Lutherans are busy celebrating...

October 27, 2012

Boooo! One-side story praising Halloween evangelism?

It would be hard to imagine anything more controversial, in the American of 2012, than...

October 03, 2012

Jesus Rifles Redux

NBC has resurrected the "Jesus Rifles" story of 2010, reporting that some three years after...

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Exorcism for fun and profit

The title of this story from the Agence France Presse (AFP), "Exorcism boom in Poland...