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December 2012

December 07, 2012

Should churches, left or right, serve as polling places?

Anyone who knows anything about the at times dangerous dance between politics and religion in...

December 04, 2012

And now, ironic Episcopal PR from South Florida

I wish there was some way, legally and technically, that I could have GetReligion readers...

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 01, 2012

Covering Catholics who are more like ‘Catholics’

GetReligion readers may recall the case of young Lennon Cihak, who -- at the very...

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 18, 2012

Honest teen meets an orthodox Catholic priest

Two decades ago, while I was serving as the religion writer for The Charlotte News...

November 16, 2012

Preachers and politics: Be careful out there folks …

Today's digest from the Religion News Service (sign up for this very helpful service, if...

November 14, 2012

New York Times on gay Pakistan

Altogether now, let's chant: World Ends Tomorrow: Women and Minorities Hit Hardest! Mort Sahl is...

November 14, 2012

Shock: Bishops decide to defend Catholic tradition!

OK, let's deal with some basic questions about Catholic bishops and politics. In terms of...

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 13, 2012

Sun’s celebration of brave, pro-gay marriage pastors

One of the big election-day stories in deep-blue, liberal Maryland was the narrow victory for...

November 08, 2012

What is this “American Catholic Church,” anyway?

What we have here is kind of a Son of the WomenPriests story -- with...

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 05, 2012

Another visit with the usual “ex-gay” suspects

It's a question that I always know I will hear after a lecture on the...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Hurricanes and political storms, near my desk in D.C.

A long time ago (in digital terms), back at the beginning of this here weblog,...

October 27, 2012

Writing a puff piece: a how-to manual

Truth be told, in our bias for fair, accurate journalism, we at GetReligion probably focus...

October 25, 2012

MSM’s upside-down Chick-fil-A sandwich

Remember when pickles, buttered buns and fried chicken filets were all we could talk about...

October 24, 2012

The Sun mourns death of a liberal priest

It's a question that journalists debate from time to time in major newsrooms: To what...

October 20, 2012

Pod people: Digging for old news on ‘Nones’

Friends and neighbors, the whole media world continues to buzz with news (me too, of...

October 19, 2012

Imagine that: ‘Pew gap’ among Latinos on gay rights?

I am sure that this will come as a major shock to many occupants of...

October 18, 2012

Church angles matter, in Prince George’s County

The state of Maryland is bluer than blue, when it comes to politics, so it's...

October 17, 2012

On sex: Smart black Christians vs. you know who

Brace yourselves, GetReligion readers. I am about to do something shocking. I would like to...

October 10, 2012

WPost further expands borders of postmodern Catholicism

For several decades now, people linked to Jewish institutions have debated whether it is possible...

October 09, 2012

About that Archbishop Nienstedt conversion quote (updated)

It's time for another update from the "framing religion as politics" beat, care of The...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

How Many Gays in Hampstead?

Here is a craft question for you, GetReligion readers. No, I don't mean freemasonry but...

September 21, 2012

Imagine this: Another unbalanced Post LGBT piece

Oh well, here we go again. I realize, at this point, that I am severely...

September 21, 2012

Remember Chick-fil-A? Still making news!

Even as we head into beautiful fall color changes, we're still talking about Chick-fil-A apparently....

September 20, 2012

LATimes on Chick-fil-A: Where’s the journalism?

A long, long, time ago -- almost a decade, in fact -- there was a...