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December 2012

December 03, 2012

Pod people: Can the MSM find centrists in gay-rights wars?

As a journalist, there are few things that I find more interesting than listening to...

December 03, 2012

Unbridled yearning for same-sex marriage

One of the big stories last week was whether the Supreme Court would hear cases...

December 02, 2012

Washington Post’s ghostly top 50 list

It's that time of year when media outlets put out their best of the year...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Quote of the year on Catholics and American politics

I don't know how you feel about anonymous quotes, but, as a rule, I am...

November 29, 2012

Gov’t RFID tracking: Creepy or mark of the beast?

When I first heard rumblings about school districts in Texas using locator chips to track...

November 29, 2012

Richard Ostling — finally! — sets up an online camp

Anyone who has followed GetReligion for very long knows what the letters WWROD stand for....

November 28, 2012

Too little news, too much analysis?

A flurry of e-mailed links to religion news stories flies back and forth each day...

November 28, 2012

One tragic, haunted, story about a dead streetwalker

Every now and then, The Washington Post focuses quite a bit of talent and effort...

November 27, 2012

Times tries to pin a label on Dorothy Day (updated)

Back in the early 1990s, I had a chance to interview the late Father Ellwood...

November 27, 2012

Going off-script: Angus Jones zaps ‘Two and a Half Men’

First things first. I sincerely hope that you've never had the displeasure of watching the...

November 26, 2012

Jesus wept? One-sided debate from Mumbai

Where to begin? So we have this very dedicated GetReligion reader who has been sending...

November 26, 2012

Faith, family and football for Ole Miss walk-on

When his 37-year-old mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, a college football star steps up...

November 25, 2012

Times team laughs at all those bitter Texans

Since I grew up in a solidly Baylor family, I have always understood why the...

November 24, 2012

Basketball coach’s ‘intensely religious’ widow

A variety of factors contributed to my decision to become a journalist: My love for writing....

November 23, 2012

Puritans lacked an Object for their Thanksgivings?

As of the moment I started writing this post, the following headlines graced -- if...

November 22, 2012

Jack Taylor’s 138-point game and the Gospel of Matthew

Even though I'm not a big basketball fan, I've had a lot of fun with...

November 21, 2012

When Obama didn’t ‘presume to know’ Creation details

Yesterday I wrote a jeremiad against the media’s curiously inconsistent approach to science. The hook...

November 20, 2012

Accurate Holiday wars update from Santa Monica!

Oh my! We may have a Nativity Lent miracle on our hands! Trust me that...

November 19, 2012

Tough to understand Tufts evangelicals

The Boston Globe reported last week on an evangelical student group at Tufts University facing...

November 17, 2012

Pod people: Red America and Bible Belt atheists

On the latest Issues, Etc. podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discuss my recent post on a Washington Post story...

November 15, 2012

Ready, set, barf: An evangelical football feature

Grab your air-sickness bag and let's dive right into this New York Times sports feature....

November 15, 2012

Bishops view Catholic teaching with suspicion? Oh really?

A journalism fellowship program I'm involved with recently heard from one Sam Feist, CNN's Washington,...

November 13, 2012

Red-state American in her natural habitat

I gotta admit: Just a few sentences into this Washington Post feature on post-election Red America...

November 12, 2012

What should be tweeted via @ThroneOfPeter?

Let's drop the media criticism for a moment and have a bit of fun (about...

November 10, 2012

When Bible Belt atheists go to church

A church service for atheists? Really!? Here in my home own state of Oklahoma, that's...

November 09, 2012

Man prays in airplane aisle, for no particular reason

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying. That was my first reaction when...

November 09, 2012

Innocence of Muslims filmmaker finally sentenced

Of the many curious coverage decisions the mainstream media made this year, I thought the...

November 08, 2012

The ghost of Prince William County

It's all about race. And age. Religion? Uh, surely that's not a factor worth exploring....

November 07, 2012

The day after: The prophet John Green, revisited

It should be a quiet day on the religion-beat front, in the wake of yesterday's...

November 06, 2012

God, gang graffiti and gunfire in L.A.

A heartwrenching story appears on the front page of today's Los Angeles Times (see a television report...