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September 2013

September 09, 2013

A Scottish tabloid libels the Churches of Christ

Tabloids will always be with us. Few will admit to taking Jesus-shaped potato chips, astrology,...

August 2013

August 06, 2013

USA Today offers faith-free look at meditation, stress

Journalists who try to cover the life and teachings of Deepak Chopra always face the...

August 06, 2013

Yay! Dallas paper examines heart and soul

It's becoming clear that The Dallas Morning News has no regard for the F-word. Faith,...

July 2013

July 20, 2013

About God and that best/frequent/satisfying sex report …

Every now and then, reseachers/activists in a think tank somewhere pull out a major study...

June 2013

June 10, 2013

Is the ‘New Evangelization’ a laughing matter?

In America there are two career fields that have a disproportionate number of agnostics and...

June 07, 2013

At WPost, even local abortion crime isn’t newsworthy

On May 25, I tweeted out the image at the top of this post with...

June 03, 2013

Normalizing nihilism: Euthanasia and the Daily Mirror

A story in Thursday's Daily Mirror about the first English patient suffering from dementia to...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

Protip: Immaculate Conception is not the Virgin Birth

Did you hear about the anteater that conceived a baby even though she had no...

May 17, 2013

Pod people: Define ‘fetus’ and give three examples

The first question I faced, in this week's "Crossroads" interview, sounded relatively simple: Why did...

May 13, 2013

Death penalty in Cleveland horrors? Wait, who died?

Once again, let's turn to the dictionary and that tricky word "fetus," which has through...

May 02, 2013

Brave religious protestors fight devil in Oak Ridge

My goal is to write a relatively short post about a very, very long Washington...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

Journalism and the first few minutes after childbirth

There is nothing new about journalists arguing about the loaded language that surrounds our public...

April 23, 2013

Master of my domain

... (T)he best persuaded of himself, so cramm'd, as he thinks, with excellencies that it...

April 17, 2013

On Sarah Kliff’s mea culpa on Gosnell (a national story)

If you have been on Twitter in the past week or so, you probably know...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Shroud of Turin: Let’s include the basic facts, please

Readers who have been following GetReligion for some time, or even reading my Scripps...

March 25, 2013

Journalism and stem cell research 101

If you think general religion coverage is bad, try mixing it with media coverage of...

March 05, 2013

Covering Cal Baptist, MTV, the law and gender identity

Here we go again, once more into the legal thicket that surrounds private colleges and...

February 2013

February 19, 2013

Dr. Ben Carson’s faith makes news, this time

Every now and then, the newspaper that lands in my front yard runs a story...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Media coverage of Roe at 40

One could write several volumes under this headline, but we'll just look at a few...

January 09, 2013

Foggy beliefs lead to church-state crisis in hospital

One of my graduate-school professors had a saying that summed up one of the central...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

Missing the grasshopper in the stem-cell debate

Master Po: Ha, ha, never assume because a man has no eyes he cannot see....

November 2012

November 30, 2012

No Catholics in the new Europe

This is a great country. I've been privileged to live and work abroad, but there...

November 27, 2012

Defining depravity downwards in Deutschland

Der Spiegel's English-language bulletin reports that conservative deputies on the Agricultural Affairs committee of 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 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

Marco Rubio and the media’s curiously inconsistent approach to science

I wonder if any of our readers have read Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and...

November 16, 2012

On media malpractice and Savita Halappanavar’s tragic death

Back in March I wrote in "How To Cover A Hate Crime" about my obsession...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Something fishy in that AP racism story

The Associated Press had a huge story this weekend accusing American voters of racism, but...

October 16, 2012

A non-journalistic flight to heaven and back

In the past week of so, I have received a number of requests for a...

October 12, 2012

Yes, you can ask tough questions of pro-choice candidates

Last night was the only Vice Presidential debate we'll get in this cycle. Almost all...