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November 2013

November 26, 2013

What was the demon Adam Lanza locked in that hard drive?

From the beginning, there was a familiar moral tension at the heart of news coverage...

November 25, 2013

Where’s the other side in atheist lawsuit story?

Religion News Service had an interesting story recently about atheists challenging Uncle Sam over nonprofit...

November 24, 2013

NYTimes: Mouseketeer-turned-Pagan-turned-Christian trip

One of the staples of evangelical Christianity -- at least so far as I can...

November 23, 2013

For BBC, Doctor Who faith is real, but never really Christmas

“Go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken...

November 22, 2013

JFK’s strong Catholic ties and the speech he DIDN’T give

Ten years ago, while working in the Dallas bureau of The Associated Press, I wrote...

November 21, 2013

Clash of absolute truths in WPost coverage of Schaefer trial

And this just in. The editorial team of The Washington Post has published a direct...

November 20, 2013

Is adjunct academia indeed the devil’s bargain?

All the necessary components were there: 83-year-old woman, beloved and career adjunct professor, cancer patient,...

November 19, 2013

Is there a religion ghost in Liz Cheney’s closet or not?

As we have watched the gossipy headlines roll past in recent days, I have found...

November 19, 2013

Those Latter-day Saints: What’s in a name?

ROYCE WONDERS: (Paraphrasing) What’s the origin of Mormonism’s official name, The Church of Jesus Christ...

November 18, 2013

Are all Jews preparing for Thanksgivukkah the same way?

Many years ago, I worked at a newspaper -- let's leave the name out of...

November 18, 2013

Blessed corpses — and holy ghosts — after typhoon

Here's my nominee for "Most Bland Headline of the Weekend." It appeared atop an Associated Press report:...

November 15, 2013

Story envy, courtesy of the New York Times

I'll just come out and say it: I wish I had written this story. Well...

November 14, 2013

Got news? Bishops stand on HHS mandate (updated)

What you see at the top of this post is the content of today's Baltimore...

November 14, 2013

Billy Graham’s 95th birthday bash: Happy or harpy?

In the 1984 hit movie "Sixteen Candles," Molly Ringwald's character, Samantha Baker, awakens on what...

November 13, 2013

NYTimes: Just WHO you callin’ a ‘conservative’ Catholic?

Sometimes I wonder if the leaders of The New York Times,among other media titans, take the...

November 11, 2013

All together now: Archbishop Lori leads WHAT committee?

It's that time, again. The U.S. Catholic bishops are back in Baltimore and the agenda...

November 11, 2013

How many atheists does it take to form a ‘megachurch?’

In pitching a trend story for a national audience, a headline-friendly catchphrase goes a long...

November 09, 2013

Pod people: Stopping in again at the Death Café

Pull thoughts and words from my head and form sentences with them on a screen?...

November 08, 2013

Surprise! A same-sex marriage story that gets religion

For the latest Christian Chronicle, I wrote a news story on judicial authorities in the Pacific...

November 07, 2013

This is praise: USA Today church-state story was confusing

Welcome back to the First Amendment wars, an increasingly active front in our nation's Culture...

November 07, 2013

Still another one-sided same-sex marriage story

Here we go again. A major media organization has published still another one-sided story on the...

November 06, 2013

Grossman’s blog is back: Faith & Reason 2.0 at RNS

One of the first signs that the religion beat was in trouble at USA Today...

November 05, 2013

Mainline killed the local church star — paper blinks

The death of a congregation is never pleasant, and the closure of the West Side...

November 02, 2013

Pod people: Does it matter if celebrities/royals have faith?

As the old saying goes, Americans don't have a royal family. We have celebrities. We...

November 01, 2013

Is Columbia, Md., really a spirit-enriching secular city?

I am not a huge fan of Utopian visions, but I have always had a...

November 01, 2013

Ghosts in blue-state — er, red-state — West Virginia?

There's a lot to digest in the Washington Post's nearly 4,000-word political road trip to West...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

WPost examines the demons (and a ghost) in ‘The Exorcist’

It's that time of year again, the time when reporters keep trying to reach author...

October 31, 2013

Why did Time fabricate a quote? Correct

"Jerry, just remember. It's not a lie if you believe it." George Costanza, "The Beard",...

October 30, 2013

Define ‘practicing Catholic;’ report the Virginia options

Surely it will come as little surprise to faithful readers of this hear blog to...

October 30, 2013

LATimes skips obvious ‘ghost’ in pet cemetery story

Losing a pet is often -- if not always -- a sad and traumatic experience....