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May 2013

May 10, 2013

Asking the Boy Scout questions that matter the most

If you know anything about the politics of gay rights, you know that there is...

May 10, 2013

Innumeracy on the Godbeat

In the summer of 1992, toy-company Mattel was criticized when their new Teen Talk Barbie...

May 08, 2013

God’s role in Mark Sanford’s redemption story

God — and South Carolina voters — decided Tuesday to give disgraced former Gov. Mark...

May 08, 2013

Hey! So who is calling the new pope ‘unorthodox’?

So, a faithful GetReligion reader was working his way through a story printed by The...

May 07, 2013

So, what do Southern Baptists have to do to get some ink?

A couple of years ago the Southern Baptist Convention explored the option of changing their...

May 06, 2013

Problems with today’s press? Religion is No. 1

After a busy Pascha weekend, I need to jump back into the tmatt file of...

May 06, 2013

Pod people: Ghosts and crickets in Jason Collins coverage

I spent much of last week in Malibu, Calif., hanging out with the stars. Actually,...

May 03, 2013

The powerful ghost in the death choir story

While I have listened to choirs that have bored me nearly to death with their...

May 03, 2013

Media treatment of Mikey Weinstein under scrutiny

Earlier today I mentioned some questions I have about this crazy "court-martial" story that blew...

May 02, 2013

Just what was this American doing in North Korea?

Let's begin this post by first looking at a Christianity Today blog post from earlier...

May 02, 2013

Brave religious protestors fight devil in Oak Ridge

My goal is to write a relatively short post about a very, very long Washington...

May 01, 2013

Joe Carter: From GetReligion reader to scribe

Having been a reader and fan of GetReligion, I’m thrilled and honored to be joining...

May 01, 2013

Why is Paula Broadwell’s faith such a mystery?

Seeking "redemption" after Petraeus scandal, Paula Broadwell looks to faith cbsn.ws/130ApsB— CBS News (@CBSNews) May...

May 01, 2013

So, does LA need a ‘conservative’ newspaper or not?

Time for a quick trip into tmatt's infamous GetReligion file of guilt. You just know...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

The Broussard brouhaha and why context matters

Context matters. Take the brouhaha that has brewed over comments ESPN NBA reporter Chris Broussard...

April 30, 2013

From Reuters: Another by-the-book Womenpriests story

At this point, it seems that mainstream journalists have decided that the Womenpriests movement deserves...

April 29, 2013

Revelations, Books of Psalms and other scriptures

Last week we noticed some embarrassing corrections related to how newspapers described the Epistle to...

April 27, 2013

Baltimore Sun drops ball in profile of a preacher’s son

Here we go again. The following has become a GetReligion mantra, when it comes to...

April 26, 2013

Upwardly mobile Hispanic evangelical converts?

Darn you, paywall. Earlier this month, Time magazine published a 3,500-word cover story on what...

April 22, 2013

Womenpriests again: The people vs. paper scenario

Anyone who has ever worked on the religion beat knows the drill. You are writing...

April 21, 2013

Pod people: Talking personal history on the religion beat

Granted, 25 years is a rather long time, especially in the Internet age. Nevertheless, I...

April 19, 2013

In tsunami of Boston info, there are basic faith questions

As the drama keeps unfolding in and around Boston, it's safe to say that journalists...

April 16, 2013

Out front: the stigma of mental illness

In 2011, I traveled to rural Oregon to report on a minister who helped bring...

April 16, 2013

Let us attend: Waiting for a religion shoe to drop in Boston

As you would expect, people were a bit tense last night on my commuter train...

April 12, 2013

That ghost in Dr. Ben Carson’s, well, moral theology

The folks who edit and operate the newspaper that lands in my front yard are...

April 11, 2013

Evangelicals and immigration: Real data, real voices

A quick review before I get to the point of this post: • Back in...

April 11, 2013

Some familiar religion-news questions, after 25 years

What are the odds? Several years ago, I realized that I was not really sure...

April 10, 2013

Memory eternal: The faith and times of McCandlish Phillips

If you wanted to know who John McCandlish Phillips was, as a New York Times...

April 09, 2013

Faith, fear and the Holocaust

Back in March, this title on a New York Times news analysis grabbed my attention:...

April 09, 2013

Define ‘Islamist’ and please be specific

Last week, the people who produce the Associated Press Stylebook issued a few revisions. One...