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March 2013

March 04, 2013

Inside the History Channel’s epic TV miniseries ‘The Bible’

This is one of those GetReligion follow-up posts where we basically say, "See, was that...

March 01, 2013

Bishop enforces Catholic doctrine; press goes, ‘Wha …?’

A regular reader who is an active Catholic recently sent us a URL to an...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Football, family and … faith? That’s a definite maybe

If you read GetReligion with any frequency, you know the drill. We critique mainstream media...

February 26, 2013

In a twist, vague evangelicals all oppose immigration reform

Stop me if I sound like a broken record. Once or twice or maybe even three...

February 26, 2013

Catholic or catholic? Or, so that’s what catholic means!

A religion writer passed along this piece from the Wall Street Journal with the instruction...

February 25, 2013

Guess which WPost reporter refuses to cover you fairly

This weekend, we looked at the Washington Post ombudsman column that revealed that the newspaper...

February 24, 2013

Where’s the faith content in these sex scandals?

On one level, that New York Times feature story on the fall of Msgr. Kevn...

February 23, 2013

WPost: Yes, we fear and loathe religious traditionalists

On Feb. 15, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton made a startling statement: It is possible...

February 22, 2013

More vague evangelicals jump on immigration bandwagon

Last week, I complained about a front-page Tampa Bay Times story filled with broad generalizations...

February 21, 2013

Catholic yes to yoga?

I have been waiting for the American press to pick up an article found in...

February 20, 2013

Bang! Bang! Hey, eat some cotton candy!

A front-page headline on the print edition of USA Today that landed in my driveway...

February 20, 2013

Ultra Orthodox or fervently religious Jews?

The Jewish Daily Forward has a fascinating discussion of terms used to describe Haredi. It...

February 19, 2013

Dr. Ben Carson’s faith makes news, this time

Every now and then, the newspaper that lands in my front yard runs a story...

February 19, 2013

Media fallibility on papal infallibility

Last week in my post "Turkson wouldn’t be first African pope," I quoted from an...

February 18, 2013

Good angels or bad angels? Should a reporter ask?

It's time to take a quick jump deep, deep into my ever-growing file of GetReligion...

February 17, 2013

Scripture verses: reporters’ Kryptonite?

The Media Research Center found this clip but I thought readers here might get a...

February 16, 2013

Westernized Zen and the art of hiding sexual abuse

So many details will sound terribly familiar. At the heart of the news story is...

February 15, 2013

Pod people: Pope steps down; many journalists fall down

Gentle readers, one cannot make some of this stuff up. So, everyone knows that Pope...

February 15, 2013

Definition, please: Who are these evangelicals?

The Tampa Bay Times broke big news on its front page the other day. According...

February 13, 2013

WWROD: No, Pope Benedict XVI did not ‘resign’

To my shock, no one out in cyberspace filed a pope-retirement question over at veteran...

February 12, 2013

Godbeat 101: Localizing the pope resignation story

For a newspaper junkie, one of the joys of the digital age is being able...

February 10, 2013

Cardinal Dolan dares to tweak the NYTimes

If you've paid attention to religion news at all in recent days, you probably know...

February 09, 2013

Lo! A better-than-average Womenpriests story

Your GetReligionistas, as the divine Mrs. MZ once stressed, are way, way, way past the...

February 09, 2013

Pod people: Boy Scout leak and grassroots sourcing

I've done a couple of posts (here and here) on the Boy Scouts of America's...

February 08, 2013

Covering opposition to syncretism in a syncretized world

There is nothing more fun about being a confessional Lutheran than explaining our position on...

February 07, 2013

Boy Scouts, Mormons and CNN’s tabloid-style ‘reporting’

Let's face it: Most of the mainstream media coverage of the Boy Scouts of America's...

February 07, 2013

GetReligion turns nine: Thoughts on comments and trolls

So, friends and neighbors, if we are going to do some intense navel-gazing here at...

February 06, 2013

About those Orthodox hermits in the Siberian wild

Every now and then, someone sends your GetReligionistas the URL for a story that is...

February 05, 2013

Ugh — when ‘reality’ TV looks inside clergy homes

I know, I know. "The Sisterhood" is a reality television show about pastors' wives. I...

February 04, 2013

News flash! Pastors preach different sermons on sex!

The Associated Press carried a story the other day that made a very interesting --...