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May 2014

May 14, 2014

Shock: Russian Orthodoxy gives drag queen thumbs down

Dear GetReligion readers: Some of you wrote to say that you wanted to know what...

May 14, 2014

Nuanced portrait of a rising Catholic star: Cardinal Wuerl

Well, darn. Someone in the media remembers that there are other Catholic leaders besides Pope...

May 13, 2014

NYTimes leans to the right in Christian legal profile?

No, the "socially liberal" New York Times didn't lean all the way to the right....

May 12, 2014

So #bringbackourgirls is finally a news story! Why now?

At this point, the kidnapped girls in Nigeria are officially "A News Story," which means...

May 12, 2014

Devil in the details: WPost on Francis teaching about Satan

The current head of the Catholic Church has often shocked liberals by showing he actually...

May 10, 2014

Getting a feel for the whole elephant in that Mississippi law

You know that ancient story about the blind men groping their way around an elephant?...

May 09, 2014

God, sex, ‘military values’ and the U.S. Naval Academy

Most weekday mornings, as I make my short drive to the train station for my...

May 09, 2014

AP’s one-sided report on teaching Bible in public schools

Gotcha! That's the distinct tone of an Associated Press story out this week (just three weeks...

May 08, 2014

Why it’s no surprise the LA Clippers have a Jewish owner

A long, long time ago -- pre-Internet for me -- I wrote an "On Religion"...

May 08, 2014

Putting a real face on Pew’s Latino religious identity survey

The Pew Research Center released a report Wednesday titled "The Shifting Religious Identity of Latinos...

May 07, 2014

Yes, it’s crucial that Boko Haram kills and tortures Muslims

Yes, we need to focus on Nigeria and Boko ("books") Haram ("forbidden"). Again. Why? Why...

May 07, 2014

NBA MVP Kevin Durant thanks God, but media fail to notice

I am not a big NBA fan, although I did attend Monday night's Oklahoma City...

May 06, 2014

Gasp! NYTimes covers the heart of Kennedy’s argument!

Let's hear it for The New York Times, a newspaper that can always be trusted...

May 05, 2014

Mystery solved? Has NYTimes seen light on Boko Haram?

There may be some news for GetReligion readers who have been following the "mysterious" case...

May 05, 2014

Pope Francis on economics: How innovative? How savvy?

JIM ASKS: Conservative commentators ridiculed [Pope Francis's decree Evangelii Gaudium] for its criticism of the...

May 05, 2014

Little argument, and little religion, after botched execution

This is the headline on a Washington Post follow-up on the recent big story in...

May 04, 2014

Getting faith into SI story of patient D-League hoops star

Once again, I realize that the world of GetReligion readers seems to contain a stunningly...

May 02, 2014

Sensitive feature looks at caregivers’ work with the dying

Thank God, literally, that not all religion news stories are about terrorists or same-sex marriage...

May 02, 2014

Newspaper reporter critiqued by GetReligion fires back

.@TipsForJesus still leaves $$$, so for #Easter, we asked ethicists - is it moral?

May 02, 2014

It’s not hard! WPost offers some crucial Boko Haram facts

In the past month or two, I have been really, really hard on the editors...

May 01, 2014

That ‘throuple’ rite: Who led them through their vows?

First, let me assure regular GetReligion readers that I am not writing this post out...

May 01, 2014

African simony assertions from Religion News Service

As a good Protestant (in an Anglican context, of course), I reject the doctrine of...

May 01, 2014

Did Washington Post offer reporting or cheerleading?

The religious left gets sympathetic treatment, not only from a new report by the Brookings...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Journalism, religion and a botched execution in Oklahoma

What was it like? How do you feel? Years ago, when I covered the state...

April 30, 2014

LATimes offers readers a simple, one-sided take on Vatican

Every niche website has a few "big ideas" that drive its work day after day....

April 30, 2014

Falwell’s 2014 Liberty: ‘Fundamentalist Baptist’ university?

Here at GetReligion, the "F-word" always catches our attention. I'm referring, of course, to fundamentalist. It's...

April 29, 2014

WPost still gets ‘Julia’ vote, but what about church ladies?

The other day I wrote a post about a Washington Post story about the upcoming...

April 29, 2014

Same-sex marriage, religious freedom and a liberal twist

An extremely interesting — and potentially highly important — twist came Monday in the ongoing...

April 28, 2014

Only one vision of the complex lives of two Vatican II saints

So, what was that remarkable "day of the four popes" all about anyway? Prepare to...

April 26, 2014

Was Kabul shooting over religion? Shouldn’t someone ask?

Q: What question has no answer? A: The one you don’t ask. In Thursday's shooting...