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August 2013

August 19, 2013

Missing half of America’s changing ecumenical landscape

A long, long, long time ago I covered a press conference featuring leaders of the...

August 19, 2013

Godbeat losing one of its best and brightest

Usually, we critique religion news here at GetReligion. Occasionally, we report on significant developments on...

August 16, 2013

What did Pope Tawadros say? When did he say it? (updated)

At the pivotal event announcing the fall of President Mohamed Morsi, a number of symbolic...

August 15, 2013

Saith the WPost: So what’s really going on in Egypt?

My cellphone chimed at me earlier this afternoon with a news bulletin from CNN that...

August 14, 2013

Muslims kill Muslims, for no reasons that can be reported

The bloodshed in Egypt continues and, to be quite frank about it, it's hard to...

August 14, 2013

Hey Mr. DJ, put some praise music on

As a famous religious figure once said, “Ask and you shall receive.” Sometimes even we...

August 13, 2013

Sun sheds very little light on new linebacker’s faith

If you know anything about the Baltimore Ravens, then you probably know something about the...

August 13, 2013

On the ‘heartbreaking’ death of a city church

The Godbeat reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel consistently does good work. "After 125 years,...

August 12, 2013

The Sun talks (just talk, no facts) about an Episcopal hero

I didn't know much about the Rt. Rev. David Leighton -- the 11th diocese of...

August 10, 2013

Tim Tebow meets the fans in liberal New England

Man, that Tim Tebow is way more popular than he should be, in light of...

August 10, 2013

Pod people: A little GetEducation for GetReligion

In the 1990s, before I became a religion writer, I covered education for The Oklahoman,...

August 09, 2013

Remember when Jesus went to Assiut? (Yeah, me neither.)

"Both Roman Catholic and Evangelical Protestant media have for years been drawing public attention to...

August 08, 2013

Not that there’s anything wrong with that …

Not that there's anything wrong with that ... A front-page Los Angeles Times headline this...

August 08, 2013

Major Nidal Hasan talks about faith, like it or not

Some may disagree, but I think we have reached the point where we can say...

August 07, 2013

The curious incident of the Catholic school in the L.A. Times

In one of the most famous Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Silver Blaze, the clue that led...

August 06, 2013

USA Today offers faith-free look at meditation, stress

Journalists who try to cover the life and teachings of Deepak Chopra always face the...

August 06, 2013

Yay! Dallas paper examines heart and soul

It's becoming clear that The Dallas Morning News has no regard for the F-word. Faith,...

August 02, 2013

The worst religion story of the year

While struggling to find words to adequately describe the worst religion article of the year,...

August 02, 2013

WPost: Virginia law highlights stupidity of home-schooling

This is the headline that ran on a 2,500-word Washington Post story Sunday: Student's home-schooling highlights...

August 01, 2013

Locking the two popes into one flawed news template

As has been our practice since day one, your GetReligionistas rarely write posts about editorials,...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

The ghost in Bud Day’s obituary

Of the many wonderful parts of the New York Times, my favorite is the obituary...

July 29, 2013

The truly interfaith church of what’s happening now

From the very beginning of this weblog, your GetReligionistas have argued that some of America's...

July 27, 2013

NYT front page discovers the most popular Bible app

Hey, guess what? If you want to read the Bible online, there's an app for...

July 26, 2013

News crisis: when people agree (Lutheran edition)

I'm in St. Louis this week at the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod's 65th regular convention. The...

July 26, 2013

NPR’s curiously biased quest for the historical Jesus

Did you know that Jesus wasn't really God? Despite what his disciples claim, he never...

July 25, 2013

A sad note of Orthodox reality in Eastern Europe

It's impossible to know precisely what is happening inside the mind of a politician when...

July 24, 2013

Uncovering part of those church modesty debates

As I have mentioned many times here at GetReligion, Deacon Greg Kandra's blog "The Deacon's...

July 23, 2013

Pope trip: Time to play ‘spot the political sound bite’

The pope is abroad. This means, of course, that it is time to look at...

July 22, 2013

The controversial mind and Lebanese soul of Helen Thomas

As I have mentioned before here at GetReligion, at the time of the Sept. 11...

July 22, 2013

Can’t headline writers and reporters get on the same page?

We live in an age of unprecedented communications technology. With access to cell phones, Skype,...