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October 2013

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

Economist, New York Times tailor pope to their notions

One of the fascinating things about Pope Francis is the apparent mad rush among mainstream...

October 02, 2013

Pew news: You don’t have to be religious to be Jewish

Readers (and bloggers) "of a certain age" will recall the famous advertising campaign for Levy's...

October 02, 2013

Kleenex alert: Tale of tragedy, irony and Christianity

It's not every day that an obituary of a non-celebrity appears above the fold on...

October 02, 2013

LATimes looks at Egypt; sees only signs of Islamic life

Over the past two years, your GetReligionistas have frequently urged (one example here) journalists to...

October 01, 2013

A more graceful Ross joins GetReligion crew

Some folks get annoyed when they read a news story with holes, a piece with...

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 30, 2013

To use or not to use: Journalists and the word ‘Islam’

Do you ever get the impression, when reading mainstream news stories, that some editors have...

September 29, 2013

Got news? Looking at key facts in the Chris Davis timeline

It's the last day of the regular baseball season and for fans of the Baltimore...

September 28, 2013

Der Spiegel: Never let a good @Pontifex go to waste

The clear differences in the style of Pope Francis as opposed to his predecessors, both...

September 27, 2013

Saith EEE: The business of those religion-beat cuts

The other day I received an email from a former GetReligion colleague, the Rev. Elizabeth...

September 27, 2013

The warning in the atheist pastor story

The New York Times today has a piece headlined "Minister Admits Overstating Her Credentials," an...

September 26, 2013

Got news? Pope Francis speaks — this time the media blink

It's safe to assume that, at this moment in time, Pope Francis is a rock...

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 26, 2013

Praying Jews flock to the Temple Mount; world notices

If there is a "Ground Zero" for the world's three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity...

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 24, 2013

More personnel changes on the Godbeat

Here at GetReligion, we don't generally report the news. We critique media coverage of the...

September 23, 2013

Nairobi: Recite this confession of faith and live

The hellish events in Nairobi's Westgate Premier Shopping Mall continue to unfold under the digital...

September 23, 2013

Communing with a Lubavitcher ‘saint?’

One of the most fascinating communities in Orthodox Judaism has to be the Lubavitcher group,...

September 21, 2013

Religious facts in the slaughter in upscale Nairobi mall

Based on the mainstream media reports pouring out of Kenya, it's clear that the terrorist...

September 20, 2013

Pope Francis on sin, confession and several other things

It was a story that received very little attention in the United States, other than...

September 19, 2013

Do religious readers really want quality religion coverage?

It has been awhile since our own Bobby Ross, Jr., quoted that laugh-to-keep-from-crying tweet by...

September 18, 2013

Did Aaron Alexis fall into a hole in ‘American’ Buddhism?

It's a sad comment on our age that, in the first tense hours after the...

September 18, 2013

Faith and ghosts in Navy Yard victim story

I sympathize with any journalist called upon to report on victims' loved ones in the...

September 17, 2013

Holy scandal! Is sipping holy water really dangerous?

OK! OK! I yield to all of you who sent me the link to that...

September 16, 2013

Baltimore Sun looks at art and religion, but not really

From the beginning of this weblog, your GetReligionistas have urged mainstream newsrooms to do a...

September 14, 2013

Assessing the state of the Godbeat

I posted earlier this week on three veteran superstars of the Godbeat — Ann Rodgers,...

September 12, 2013

Dawkins talks 2.0, and Anglicans just can’t catch a break

There he goes, there he goes again. At the moment, the Rt. anti-Rev. Richard Dawkins...

September 12, 2013

Hey, guess what, all Baptists are Calvinists

Where's Joe Carter when you need him? Oh, right. I forgot. Before his premature departure,...

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...