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June 2013

June 05, 2013

WPost Style manages to print an interesting EWTN story

Whenever your GetReligionistas pick on the Style gods at The Washington Post -- primarily with...

June 05, 2013

Seven questions about Boy Scout gay policy coverage

Headlines over the Boy Scouts of America's decision to allow openly gay members are still...

June 05, 2013

How should journalists fight back against sacred jargon?

Yesterday, CNN ran a feature highlighting the faith of members of a Bible group the...

June 04, 2013

Hey Washington Post: There’s only one (gay) Islam? Really?

Anyone who has been paying attention to debates about the future of the Boy Scouts...

June 04, 2013

Evangelicalism is political, but not a political movement

How many political issues do American evangelicals care about? Apparently, just two: abortion and same-sex...

June 01, 2013

Churches dumping Boy Scouts over gay policy … or not?

Godbeat pro Bob Smietana wrote a story this week exploring whether churches will keep sponsoring Boy...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Why can’t press get religion, when covering black churches?

Let's face it. The mainstream press really struggles when trying to cover life in African-American...

May 30, 2013

German cardinal found guilty of being pro-natalist

One of the most common fallacies of our age is the assumption that simply because...

May 29, 2013

God and faith in Oklahoma tornado coverage

In my first-person account of the Moore, Okla., tornado last week, I predicted that the faith...

May 28, 2013

Haunted story or not? On vampires, Satanism and murder

Day after day, the stunning story of young Morgan Lane Arnold has unfolded in the...

May 27, 2013

Gosh! Finding meaning in great Russian literature?

I spent most of last week on the other side of the planet (a Media...

May 27, 2013

Does the president, and the press, get theodicy?

There’s an old joke preachers tell about the man who was depressed and opened the...

May 24, 2013

Mormonism is a religion, not just a culture

For people serious about their faith, religious beliefs tend not only to influence other types...

May 24, 2013

Yo, Politico: IRS commits — not violates — sins

Isn't it interesting how unfamiliar some folks are with religious language? A reporter passed on...

May 22, 2013

Oklahoma tornado doctor: a bundle of vague faith

The Oklahoman, my hometown newspaper and former employer, is rising to the occasion in its coverage...

May 22, 2013

A quiverfull of kudos for the BBC

As an Evangelical in the media, I’m sympathetic to the struggle journalists have with reporting on...

May 21, 2013

The faith and resiliency of Oklahomans

Just before noon Monday, my two younger children and I drove along Interstate 35 through...

May 21, 2013

That’s one very, very poor headline about the pope

As I have stressed many times here at GetReligion, it's important for readers to understand...

May 21, 2013

How To Be A Lousy Journalist

Over at Intercollegiate Review, I have a piece with some helpful journalism tips. Here's how...

May 20, 2013

Protip: Immaculate Conception is not the Virgin Birth

Did you hear about the anteater that conceived a baby even though she had no...

May 19, 2013

Downplaying the canonization of Christians martyred by Muslim invaders?

In a recent post about an error in a story about a new saint, readers...

May 18, 2013

IRS scandal and ‘easy’ religion ghosts

On a recent Crossroads podcast, host Todd Wilken remarked with interest on how many...

May 17, 2013

One, two, trend: Godbeat pros changing jobs!

Here at GetReligion, we focus mainly on critiquing the mass media's coverage of religion news....

May 17, 2013

A nun, some nukes and a haunted holy ghost story

So a nun and two peace activists walk into a nuclear facility ... It’s not...

May 16, 2013

Protip: Religious liberty is a civil liberty

Let's begin this post with a quick definition from Burton's Legal Thesaurus, 4th edition: civil...

May 15, 2013

Ready! Set! Be bored by Illinois’ same-sex marriage debate!

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life's "Religion News on the Web" page is one...

May 15, 2013

Hey Reuters: Historic details really matter in Istanbul

Istanbul is the kind of place in which the past often seems to be just...

May 12, 2013

Pod people: Proselytization, blasphemy and Gosnell

On this week's Crossroads podcast with host Todd Wilken, we talked media coverage of the...

May 11, 2013

In post-denominational age, what’s in a name?

Joe Carter, our newest GetReligionista, referenced Southern Baptist name-change discussions in a post earlier this week....

May 10, 2013

Preach, Brother Leitch, Preach!

Please check out this column from my favorite sportswriter Will Leitch. (And I'm not just...