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November 2012

November 29, 2012

Gov’t RFID tracking: Creepy or mark of the beast?

When I first heard rumblings about school districts in Texas using locator chips to track...

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

Going off-script: Angus Jones zaps ‘Two and a Half Men’

First things first. I sincerely hope that you've never had the displeasure of watching the...

November 22, 2012

Jack Taylor’s 138-point game and the Gospel of Matthew

Even though I'm not a big basketball fan, I've had a lot of fun with...

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 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

On media malpractice and Savita Halappanavar’s tragic death

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

November 15, 2012

Bishops view Catholic teaching with suspicion? Oh really?

A journalism fellowship program I'm involved with recently heard from one Sam Feist, CNN's Washington,...

November 14, 2012

Peter Beinart and the powerful, but voiceless, Jews of Atlanta

The New York Times published an interesting story about the Atlanta Jewish Book Festival ("Jewish...

November 13, 2012

Are Salafis the most orthodox among Muslims?

The New York Times published a riveting piece about Salafism in Tunisia. From the beginning,...

November 12, 2012

Is “marriage equality” our term, their’s and everyone else’s?

Back in May, I noticed a curious decision by some media outlets to scare quote...

November 09, 2012

Innocence of Muslims filmmaker finally sentenced

Of the many curious coverage decisions the mainstream media made this year, I thought the...

November 08, 2012

Which religious group should be blamed for the election results?

Well, everyone, we made it through another presidential campaign year! Congratulations to the winners and...

November 06, 2012

CNN attempts to bifurcate Jesus

I was reflecting on the interesting election coverage we experienced over the last year(s) and...

November 06, 2012

And for the Copts, the winner is … the winner is?

First things first: I would like to stress that, while I am a member of...

November 05, 2012

Top 10 ways BuzzFeed doesn’t get Christianity

Two minor media incidents yesterday made me wonder if some of the problems we see...

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 02, 2012

Catholic bishops’ not-so-partisan partisan crusade

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

November 01, 2012

Calm down about the Vatican and James Bond Skyfall

It was three years ago that I read a really interesting story in the...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Here I stand: Martin Luther on film

So while the rest of you are focused on Halloween, we Lutherans are busy celebrating...

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 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 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

AP knows what the Pope really thinks

I was at a meeting of a journalism fellowship program I'm part of this weekend....

October 22, 2012

Is Sandra Fluke a ‘social justice’ advocate?

Conservatives had quite a bit of fun with a Reno Gazette-Journal article that was originally...

October 21, 2012

Does the Name “Theophilus” Violate the Establishment Clause?

I got that headline from an interesting discussion at the Center for Law and Religion...

October 19, 2012

Benghazi terrorist hiding in plain sight

I know readers prefer us to harsh on stories rather than praise them, but I...

October 18, 2012

Weed is a beautiful gift from God

There is something about writing about marijuana that gets reporters a bit, well, dopey. You...