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October 2013

October 30, 2013

Universalism at play? Or is this church split only about sex?

The Dallas Morning News — which dropped its paywall Oct. 1 — had an interesting...

October 28, 2013

Detroit paper ducks Bible when female Baptist bishop quits

I haven't been around that many Baptists of late, but one of the first things...

October 24, 2013

A Pope Francis story, from the other side of the notebook

Like many GetReligion readers, I was somewhat rattled by that recent Washington Post story about...

October 24, 2013

Moore of the same, but still a worthy effort

I had a sense of deja vu this week as I clicked on a 2,000-word...

October 23, 2013

Yet another one-sided AP same-sex marriage story

Over the weekend, I did a post titled "Another one-sided AP same-sex marriage story." I...

October 19, 2013

Another one-sided AP same-sex marriage story

Case closed. The Associated Press has decided, apparently, that stories need to include only side....

October 17, 2013

Luke Russert on snark, journalism, faith and easy targets

Let's start the day with a quick thought from Luke Russert of NBC News, who...

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 08, 2013

Mormons softening opposition to homosexuality … or not

If you enjoy quality journalism, feel free to skip an Associated Press story out today on...

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...

September 2013

September 11, 2013

Ghost in that NYTimes Justice Kennedy hagiography

It's time for a quick dip into my unusually thick GetReligion folder of guilt, that...

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...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Should some marriages be scare-quoted?

Many moons ago, when I was asking questions about why Religion News Service put "religious...

August 22, 2013

Guess which sin makes church discipline newsworthy?

Every week, in churches around the world, Christians engage in a peculiar practice in which...

August 07, 2013

The curious incident of the Catholic school in the L.A. Times

In one of the most famous Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Silver Blaze, the clue that led...

August 03, 2013

Round II: The LATimes ignores Supremes, covenant too

There were quite a few logical journalistic questions to ask after my post about the...

August 02, 2013

Yes or no: This school has a Catholic doctrinal covenant?

Let's start with an informal quiz. Raise your hand if you think it would be...

August 01, 2013

The moral (and news) authority of Desmond Tutu

An article at BBC.com on the launch of a United Nations-backed campaign to promote gay...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Can’t headline writers and reporters get on the same page?

We live in an age of unprecedented communications technology. With access to cell phones, Skype,...

July 12, 2013

Big tests for media’s abortion message machine

Someone on Twitter noticed something illuminating about mainstream media coverage of social issues that's worth...

July 12, 2013

Pod people: The thin line between insight and hearsay

Earlier this week, I critiqued an Associated Press story on the hullabaloo caused by a...

July 10, 2013

In Kentucky, ‘Shiite Baptists’ and the crazy old uncle

Thou shalt not write an inflammatory newspaper column. Hell, it seems, hath no fury like...

July 03, 2013

Painful silences in CBS chat on same-sex marriage rulings

OK, follow me carefully here, because it is especially interesting who passed the following item...

July 01, 2013

A tune on gay evangelicals that evangelicals won’t recognize

While working on a recording together, Johnny Cash asked Bob Dylan if he knew "Ring...

June 2013

June 29, 2013

Same-sex marriage and a conscience clash, via CNN

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage, CNN's "Belief Blog" features an...

June 28, 2013

Pod people: Have many Americans tuned out the press?

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage, I wrote two...

June 28, 2013

Want balanced coverage? USA Today shows how it’s done

A few weeks ago a study on news media coverage by the Pew Research Center...