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June 2014

June 18, 2014

Nuns, strippers and the never-boring Godbeat

Sister Mary Clarence could totally fix this: Nuns file suit over noisy strip club next...

June 13, 2014

Did a British judge compel a child to have an abortion?

Reader beware. A story that is too good to be true is often that, not...

June 12, 2014

Ghosts after Seattle Pacific shooting? Not in this story

Here at GetReligion, we blog often about holy ghosts in news coverage. However, we much...

June 11, 2014

In Irish children’s deaths, clarity doesn’t thrive in a septic tank

The accounts of cruelty, neglect and other abuse of children under Catholic Church care in...

June 08, 2014

United (for now) Methodists and the same-sex debate

Amid talk of a possible schism over homosexuality, the United Methodist Church is back in the news....

June 04, 2014

Was Catholic ‘teaching’ involved in latest Ireland scandal?

If I have heard this statement once at pro-life rallies I have heard it a...

June 02, 2014

Let them eat cake and — in Colorado — make others bake it

I'm no expert on baking, but I suspect that a layer cake should stand straight,...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

United Methodists stand at a ‘tipping point’ — once again

Yes, it's time to head into yet another oldline Protestant summer of sex. This leads...

May 17, 2014

About that prophetic USA Today story grilling Mark Jackson

It's time for a quick trip into my very large folder of GetReligion guilt, that...

May 13, 2014

NYTimes leans to the right in Christian legal profile?

No, the "socially liberal" New York Times didn't lean all the way to the right....

May 10, 2014

Getting a feel for the whole elephant in that Mississippi law

You know that ancient story about the blind men groping their way around an elephant?...

May 06, 2014

SCOTUS prayer case: reporting, opinion in one story

Like many towns, prayer opens government meetings in Greece, N.Y. Unlike many towns, a couple...

May 05, 2014

Little argument, and little religion, after botched execution

This is the headline on a Washington Post follow-up on the recent big story in...

May 02, 2014

Newspaper reporter critiqued by GetReligion fires back

.@TipsForJesus still leaves $$$, so for #Easter, we asked ethicists - is it moral?

May 01, 2014

Did Washington Post offer reporting or cheerleading?

The religious left gets sympathetic treatment, not only from a new report by the Brookings...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Journalism, religion and a botched execution in Oklahoma

What was it like? How do you feel? Years ago, when I covered the state...

April 30, 2014

LATimes offers readers a simple, one-sided take on Vatican

Every niche website has a few "big ideas" that drive its work day after day....

April 29, 2014

WPost still gets ‘Julia’ vote, but what about church ladies?

The other day I wrote a post about a Washington Post story about the upcoming...

April 29, 2014

Same-sex marriage, religious freedom and a liberal twist

An extremely interesting — and potentially highly important — twist came Monday in the ongoing...

April 26, 2014

Was Kabul shooting over religion? Shouldn’t someone ask?

Q: What question has no answer? A: The one you don’t ask. In Thursday's shooting...

April 24, 2014

So divorced man says his new wife says the pope said ….

Well, there is no question that the buzz-worthy story of the day is the further...

April 23, 2014

WPost team looks at politics in 2014, sees zero folks in pews

It's time to set the wayback (actually, it's WABAC) machine for the year 2003, when...

April 22, 2014

The Atlantic slips — somehow — inside mind of Benedict XVI

During the annual pre-Easter season of snarky or mildly negative religion stories, I think that...

April 22, 2014

Weed in Denver, but Easter news on other front pages

If you live in the Mile High City (no pun intended), you woke up Sunday...

April 21, 2014

Nice but, at times, confusing news on Virginia Anglican wars

Inspiring, uplifting stories have been hard to find in recent decades in the world of...

April 21, 2014

Don’t divorce an NYT article from sharp reporting

It's especially crucial for journalists to, well, GetReligion when the story is about a "get."...

April 19, 2014

Shocking news! T.D. Jakes doubts something!

"Replate 1A." That was a favorite dry reaction at my old newspaper whenever someone announced...

April 18, 2014

What would Jesus tip? Be sure to ask … secular ethicists!?

.@TipsForJesus still leaves $$$, so for #Easter, we asked ethicists - is it moral?

April 17, 2014

About those evangelical whispers on same-sex marriage

As you would imagine, your GetReligionistas are never eager to critique the work of previous...

April 16, 2014

Francis links abortion with abuse, yet press doesn’t follow

The Italian press has placed an interesting interpretation on Pope Francis' Friday comments on the...