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April 2013

April 06, 2013

USA Today: Jesus’ hometown was … Jerusalem

I make no secret of my allegiance to God, my family and the Texas Rangers....

April 04, 2013

Pod people: One more Easter home run

As most of you know, Sunday was an important religious holiday. In my "All hope...

April 04, 2013

CBS: John the Baptist was at the Crucifixion

In our discussions on the New York Times' whopper of an error (and weird correction),...

April 03, 2013

WWROD: So is atheism a belief system or not?

It's time for another GetReligion visit to the online domain of the Ridgewood Religion Guy,...

April 02, 2013

All hope is not lost: Easter in America’s newspapers

That New York Times doozie-of-a-correction notwithstanding, many American journalists understand exactly what Easter means for...

April 01, 2013

Christians wary on Easter (sort of) in Syria

Every religion writer has experienced those awkward moments each year when an editor walks over...

April 01, 2013

This NY Times Easter correction is a doozie

The reporter who passed this one along to us wrote, simply: they just make it...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Render unto Google the things which are Google’s …

First of all, let me state right up front that it is hard to do...

March 30, 2013

Another hack piece by CNN … maybe (Updated)

What's good for the goose is good for, um, Sarah Pulliam Bailey. Right? Sarah, former...

March 29, 2013

Shroud of Turin: Let’s include the basic facts, please

Readers who have been following GetReligion for some time, or even reading my Scripps...

March 28, 2013

Religion ghost in school voucher story?

School vouchers aren't exactly a new concept. In my education reporting days — before I...

March 28, 2013

Got news? Egyptian Copts tortured for some strange reason

Yes, I know that we're talking about a report on Fox News. That fact alone,...

March 28, 2013

Who knew Piers Morgan could be thought-provoking?

The Huffington Post's Jon Ward is a thoughtful reporter and one who uncovers ghosts on...

March 26, 2013

Winners and losers in our do-it-yourself religion era

No one on the national religion-news scenes writes with more vigor and enthusiasm about America's...

March 26, 2013

Polyamory, pessimism and other same-sex marriage ink

After years of pointing out how unbelievably unprofessional the journalism of same-sex marriage coverage was,...

March 25, 2013

A stone, but no tablet, at the emergency room

It's been a difficult few weeks for your friendly neighborhood GetReligionistas. First, George endured major...

March 25, 2013

So, how did Brittney Griner end up at Baylor?

Trust me when I say that I am very, very aware, after nearly a decade...

March 22, 2013

Ghosts in news about those monks and their simple caskets

So, in one level, my primary task in this post is to point GetReligion readers...

March 21, 2013

Hey CNN: Ghosts in the ties that bind Cyprus and Russia

So I'm sitting in a restaurant eating my lunch and, up on the wall, the...

March 21, 2013

Putting a human face on illegal immigration

Get Religion crickets, prepare to chirp. You guessed it: I'm going to write about media...

March 20, 2013

Did ‘the’ leader of the Orthodox attend the Rome rites?

So, let's assume that you are a Catholic leader and you pick up your morning...

March 18, 2013

Ssssshhh! Conservative Catholics may exist at Georgetown

When the news broke about the election of the first Jesuit pope, several on-air commentators...

March 15, 2013

Pope Francis and the ‘Hand of God’

Europe's tabloid press has added its bit to the wall-to-wall press coverage of Pope Francis. Crowding...

March 14, 2013

Pope Francis on Page 1: Best and worst of local reax

It's another great day to be a newspaper junkie who enjoys checking out front pages...

March 13, 2013

Yes! Pope Francis is not from Europe! (updated)

All together now: Raise your hands if you wanted to throw something at the television...

March 13, 2013

Dudes with red hats deadlocked on pope winner

The religion news world remains on pope watch, awaiting the selection of Benedict XVI's successor....

March 12, 2013

Good Catholic info, sort of, but lousy ‘Catholic’ headline

Right now, editors in major newsrooms are doing everything they can to cover the papal...

March 10, 2013

Some ghosts in a final funeral for Civil War veterans?

I have always been fascinated, both as a pastor's kid and as a journalist, by...

March 07, 2013

The new evangelical Goliath? Online ed at Liberty U

Back in November, The New York Times produced a downright nauseating account of Liberty University's...

March 06, 2013

Duck, duck, ghost: Media miss faith angle on ‘Duck Dynasty’

Do you speak duck? Last Wednesday night, the Season 3 premiere of A&E's "Duck Dynasty" delivered...