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January 2013

January 28, 2013

Foot-long subs vs. March For Life

The Associated Press has a Twitter feed with nearly 1.6 million followers. Those followers received...

January 27, 2013

How to write a bland story about the March For Life

As expected, the journalists at The Washington Post were pretty careful with their coverage of...

January 25, 2013

Time for the “March for Life” media debate (updated)

It's that time again -- time for the annual debate about media bias in mainstream...

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 23, 2013

The ghost of abortion in adoption stories

Like many Americans, I've been developing an interest in Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San...

January 21, 2013

BBC misses religious-liberty ghost in St. Francisville, La.

Through the years, your GetReligionistas have gone out of our way to note that it's...

January 15, 2013

On immigration reform, ‘many’ evangelicals all think alike

On a chilly morning last January, I got up before the sun rose and joined...

January 11, 2013

Affirm homosexuality now … or else

Washington Post Book World fiction editor Ron Charles tweeted out this morning: Changing times: Gay...

January 09, 2013

NYT publishes ‘news story’ on pregnancy centers

The New York Times, a daily publication that claims to "Publish All the News That's...

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...

January 08, 2013

Can forgiveness play a role in criminal justice?

That's the provocative headline that accompanies a story I've been pondering ever since Amy Welborn...

January 04, 2013

Symbolic defeat for a Christian business in Maryland

After spending more than a week on the road, I returned home -- as always...

January 03, 2013

The Magic Circle and the Soho masses

The line between criticism and carping is not always clear. A story may appear to...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Got news? White House vs. Little Sisters of the Poor

From coast to coast, the lawyers of religious groups and charities can almost quote the...

December 16, 2012

So, ‘broader societal problems’ in Newtown, or not?

It goes without saying that the GetReligion crew has been closely watching the coverage of...

December 14, 2012

How to bury a link to the Catholic scandal of this age

Anyone who has followed the mainstream media's coverage of the Catholic Church over the past...

December 12, 2012

Ho ho ho and Merry F-word!

On its Money section cover today, USA Today celebrates a business that's using an R-rated word...

December 11, 2012

Savita’s tragic death and media ethics

The tragic death of Savita Halappananvar continues to produce headlines, particularly in Europe and India....

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 06, 2012

Who’s feeding the starving people?

If you're familiar with USA Today, you know that the front page generally features a few...

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...

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 28, 2012

Too little news, too much analysis?

A flurry of e-mailed links to religion news stories flies back and forth each day...

November 28, 2012

Sandra Fluke, Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ and tender stories

Time magazine is doing its annual PR blitz for its "Person of the Year." After...

November 27, 2012

Times tries to pin a label on Dorothy Day (updated)

Back in the early 1990s, I had a chance to interview the late Father Ellwood...

November 25, 2012

Times team laughs at all those bitter Texans

Since I grew up in a solidly Baylor family, I have always understood why the...

November 19, 2012

Tough to understand Tufts evangelicals

The Boston Globe reported last week on an evangelical student group at Tufts University facing...

November 19, 2012

The murder of Shaima Alawadi and media credulousness

I mentioned the story of Shaima Al Awadhi the other day. (Previous coverage here, here...

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

Shock: Bishops decide to defend Catholic tradition!

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