Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

GetReligion

Home
Religion News

religious liberty

Select a Category 5Q+1 Academia Anglicanism Announcements Atheists & Agnostics Baptists Books Business & Economy Catholicism Creeping Fundamentalism Education Ethics Evangelicals Film First Person gays Godbeat Got news? Humor Interviews Islam Journalism Judaism Lutherans Mainline Marriage & family Middle East Mormons Music Nones Orthodoxy Pagans Pentecostalism People Podcasts Politics Pop Culture Race Radio & TV Religion religious liberty Same-sex marriage Science Sex Social Issues Sports Uncategorized Vatican Web/Tech What is this? World World Religions Worship

Select a Month August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 May 2010 July 2009 February 2009 October 2008 July 2008 January 2007 August 2006 July 2006 October 2005

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Define ‘practicing Catholic;’ report the Virginia options

Surely it will come as little surprise to faithful readers of this hear blog to...

October 29, 2013

Praise be to Soros for investing millions in Baltimore

So, does the cultural left have a leader who might play the role that the...

October 29, 2013

Forgetting the kippah or crucifix (and the second why)

All-nighters and Domino's Pizza at the student newspaper. X-acto knives and 2-point tape. The smell...

October 28, 2013

LA Times offers a gentle, shallow Catholic health-care story

I was encouraged, and a bit surprised, that the editorial team at The Los Angeles...

October 26, 2013

Got news? Has Kristallnacht come to the Middle East?

There was always an important, yet unstated, idea at the heart of the "On Faith"...

October 23, 2013

The Coptic ghost in those potential flights from Egypt

Let's start with a few journalistic questions. Am I surprised that The New York Times...

October 18, 2013

Lost in mobs, fire, guns and ink: Is Christ of Sinai safe?

What is the Mona Lisa worth? At the time of their destruction by the Taliban,...

October 16, 2013

Football and prayer story: touchdown or incomplete pass?

A Washington Post sports story caught my attention with this intriguing headline: Faith and football...

October 14, 2013

Catholic university acts, well, Catholic — media stunned

"Is the pope Catholic?" is an old question, suggesting a rather obvious answer. Of course the...

October 11, 2013

Pod people: Facts are your friends, journalists

Here at GetReligion, we make no secret of our bias. That bias: our deep affection...

October 09, 2013

Got news? Concerning Catholic priests, Mass and padlocks

Because of my background in church-state studies, for the past third of a century or...

October 07, 2013

Hey, LA Times, there’s more to HHS fight than Hobby Lobby

First things first: I have to admit that I almost choked on my diet cherry...

October 05, 2013

When religious liberty clashes with gay rights

This was the headline on a Wall Street Journal story this week: Some Businesses Balk...

October 04, 2013

Pod people: Deja vu on global persecution of Christians

As a rule, I don't discuss the contents of one of my new Scripps Howard...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

To use or not to use: Journalists and the word ‘Islam’

Do you ever get the impression, when reading mainstream news stories, that some editors have...

September 26, 2013

Got news? Pope Francis speaks — this time the media blink

It's safe to assume that, at this moment in time, Pope Francis is a rock...

September 25, 2013

Taking a legal walk in a church’s non-religious woods

For decades, I have been covering stories involving clashes between religious organizations and state and...

September 21, 2013

The ‘exceptional importance’ of the Hobby Lobby case

It's no surprise that the "Hobby Lobby" case is in the news. The valid headlines...

September 13, 2013

Hey AP: Does anyone know why Terry Jones was arrested?

If you have spent much time studying First Amendment cases you will know that many...

September 08, 2013

What is the X-factor in Syrian bloodshed? DUH! (updated)

It seems that many networkers in the online world remain fired up about that recent...

September 06, 2013

Imagine Pope Francis; help artists win prizes

So, unless you have spent quite a bit of time on another planet in recent...

September 06, 2013

Gay rights in San Antonio: simple quote, complex subject

In San Antonio, a battle over a proposed ordinance to add "gender identity” and “sexual...

September 04, 2013

Hey AP: Where is religious left on religious liberty issues?

A long, long time ago, 1998 to be precise, I wrote a column marking the...

September 02, 2013

How to follow totally secular Syria news on Twitter

The goal here at GetReligion is, of course, to look at the good and the...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

WWROD? What does sharia law look like in practice?

The other day, in a discussion of events in Egypt, I noted -- once again...

August 28, 2013

Pod people: What’s religion got to do with Egyptian tourism?

In the wake of the events of 9/11, I had the honor of taking part...

August 21, 2013

Interesting Rowan Williams apology: And important, too

Let us return, for a moment, to that interesting quote the other day from the...