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November 2012

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 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 06, 2012

God, gang graffiti and gunfire in L.A.

A heartwrenching story appears on the front page of today's Los Angeles Times (see a television report...

November 05, 2012

The Hot Dog theory of history

It is touching to see that in spite of everything that has happened over the...

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...

November 04, 2012

Pearls before Net commenters (or a Godbeat gem)

A reader sent along this story in the Washington Post headlined "Parents accept daughter's rare...

November 03, 2012

About GetReligion: In a few words or less

For years, journalists took one of two different approaches when labeling the two sides in...

November 02, 2012

Catholic bishops’ not-so-partisan partisan crusade

The Washington Post ran a piece from Religion News Service with the headline: Catholic bishops...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Evangelicals warming to Mormon Romney?

A recent front-page Los Angeles Times story makes the case that reluctant evangelical Christian voters...

October 28, 2012

Pod people: Theodicy, pinnochios and the war on women

Last week was not one of the best for the mainstream media. I just wrote...

October 27, 2012

Boooo! One-side story praising Halloween evangelism?

It would be hard to imagine anything more controversial, in the American of 2012, than...

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 25, 2012

Media embarrassingly ill-equipped to cover rape, theodicy

The whole point of this website, since day one, has been to help mainstream journalists...

October 24, 2012

Galling MSM abortion extremism double standards

There are so many stories related to the media's poor coverage of abortion that I...

October 23, 2012

Jeers, not cheers, for latest cheerleader story

Ready? OK! In the midst of the Religion Newswriters Association annual meeting earlier this month,...

October 19, 2012

Capital punishment, abortion and a Catholic politician

The Washington Post's front page today featured a long profile focused on the faith and...

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 13, 2012

Pod people: saying goodbye

Friends of GetReligion, it is time for me to tip my hat and say farewell....

October 12, 2012

Agnostic scout ousted because he’s gay?

Anyone who has followed the tensions between gay-rights activists and the Boy Scouts knows that...

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...

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...

October 08, 2012

Guardian ends the debate on abortion

There are no valid pro-life arguments. All right thinking people have seen the light, the...

October 07, 2012

Got news? ‘Pro-choice terrorist’ pleads guilty

Among the many tragedies of the polarization over abortion is the fringe figures on both...

October 05, 2012

Church, Lone Star State and #RNA2012

As Mollie mentioned, the GetReligion team — which mostly hangs out together in cyberspace — has...

October 02, 2012

Ghosts appear when IKEA disappears women

What's the world coming from if you can't cater to Saudia Arabian consumers by airbrushing...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Meanwhile, back at AP’s sausage factory

On Thursday, I highlighted a fine piece of journalism produced by The Associated Press' filet...

September 26, 2012

God forbid, an 8 percent increase in dubious claims

During the political conventions a few weeks ago, we commented on some disparate coverage of...

September 22, 2012

Anger at news media: A ‘pew gap’ out there?

Surely anyone who follows American politics, at least with serious intent, knows something about the...