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January 2014

January 24, 2014

Shocking! Baptist says wives should ‘submit’ to husbands

Courtesy of The Washington Post, let's all prepare to hyperventilate. This news will shock you...

January 23, 2014

Concerning that Milbank column and the WPost news report

First of all, to those who have written or tweeted on this: Yes, your GetReligionistas...

January 22, 2014

Time magazine claims that Bible-ness is next to Godliness

An old Salvation Army musical production -- the kind of church entertainment often aimed at...

January 20, 2014

Breaking news (again): Bible Belt divorce rates high

News travels fast. Sometimes. In 1999, The Associated Press reported on Bible Belt states battling...

January 17, 2014

No ghosts in this SI look at Wooden, Alcindor/Abdul Jabbar

Week after week, month after month, year after year, I write GetReligion posts in which...

January 15, 2014

New to the Godbeat in St. Louis: Lilly Fowler

Congrats to @RNS contributor @LillyAFowler, succeeding @townsendreport as #religion writer at @STLtoday. Starts Jan. 20....

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

Reuters editors read mind of Pope Francis on abortion

So, GetReligion readers, it is time for short religion-news quiz. Raise your hands (or click...

January 13, 2014

What M.Z. said: Doctor Who vs. Jesus at BuzzFeed?

First things first: Yes, I am a big Doctor Who fan. Thus, I find the...

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

So what is the new ‘On Faith’ about, in these early days?

Through the years, your GetReligionistas tended to offer rather mixed views of the "On Faith"...

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 10, 2014

God, faith, Jahi McMath and church (or not)

I can't remember the last time I became so engrossed in a story. Perhaps it's...

January 09, 2014

News flash! AP ends the Great Schism of 1054!

Many moons ago -- just under a quarter of a century -- I covered a...

January 09, 2014

CNN finds missing voices in ‘atheist’ pastor’s media blitz

Earlier this week, I posted on Ryan Bell, the Seventh-day Adventist pastor who gave up his...

January 08, 2014

What? The press overlooked key Catholic stories in 2013?

First of all, I would like to stress that I had already decided, several days...

January 08, 2014

Wives, submission, web traffic and Candace Cameron Bure

Candace Cameron Bure, darling of '80s sitcom television, is all grown up. In case you're...

January 07, 2014

What can we say? Boston Globe hires John L. Allen, Jr.

For several decades now, I have been telling mainstream newsroom managers that all they have...

January 07, 2014

Daily Mail: Welby ‘casts out sin’ in new baptismal rite — not

In my opinion, looking to London's Daily Mail for religion news coverage is rather like looking...

January 07, 2014

Are there different versions of Islam’s Quran?

DUANE ASKS: Are there different versions of the Quran or just different interpretations of the...

January 06, 2014

An ‘atheist’ Adventist’s alienation: any missing voices?

The most popular story on Religion News Service's website right now involves a Seventh-day Adventist...

January 06, 2014

Hail Epiphany and farewell to Christmas (and white Santas)

First things first: I hope that readers who are into that whole Christian calendar had...

January 05, 2014

Grantland gets the ghosts in the Baylor football saga

Regular readers will know that I have been arguing, for quite some time now, that...

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

Wait, not all home-schooling is stupid and harmful!?

What she said. Last summer, I did a GetReligion post titled "WPost: Virginia law highlights...

January 02, 2014

NYT: Nuns, birth control and Obamacare

Believe it or not, I come not to bury the Great Gray Lady but to...

January 01, 2014

Happy (religious) New Year, all year long, age after age

THE GUY EXPLAINS: Lacking a specific question from a reader, The Guy takes on his...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Does ‘Pope Francis effect’ mean a Catholic growth trend?

The best journalists report what they know — and what they don't. Given the flurry...

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...