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August 2014

August 01, 2014

Same as it ever was: It’s time for a new, old GetReligion

You know that whole Christmas in July thing, when stores and other groups have fun...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Wait? Who is calling who an ‘evangelical’ or ‘conservative’?

Bravo and a big amen to Religion News Service editor Kevin Eckstrom for a crisp...

March 2014

March 06, 2014

AP finally spikes infamous Nazi Christian Youth (not) photo

It took a while, but the final shoe dropped the other day in the mysterious...

March 04, 2014

Mysterious role of religion in Newsweek resurrection?

It's hard to miss the religious zinger in this passage from a New York Times...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Yo, Globe: Why settle for fog when you have a better option?

So I had a meeting the other day with a former GetReligionista and, within minutes,...

February 07, 2014

Pod people: Russell Wilson, ghosts, 10 years of GetReligion

Let's do this one backwards. In a perfect world, the easy way to do mainstream...

February 06, 2014

The Guardian: Ridiculing the saints, the Virgin and prayer

Why do we fight? Why do we write? What motivates our editor tmatt and the...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Pope Francis to the media: Try being good neighbors

Think of this as a one-time GetReligion commentary from a guest who is an expert,...

January 20, 2014

Oh, those religious fund-raisers

GRETCHEN ASKS: (Paraphrasing) She attended a fund-raising event for an unnamed organization where a slide...

January 10, 2014

So what is the new ‘On Faith’ about, in these early days?

Through the years, your GetReligionistas tended to offer rather mixed views of the "On Faith"...

January 08, 2014

What? The press overlooked key Catholic stories in 2013?

First of all, I would like to stress that I had already decided, several days...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

What was the demon Adam Lanza locked in that hard drive?

From the beginning, there was a familiar moral tension at the heart of news coverage...

November 02, 2013

Pod people: Does it matter if celebrities/royals have faith?

As the old saying goes, Americans don't have a royal family. We have celebrities. We...

October 2013

October 10, 2013

WWROD? Hang out with the GetReligionistas team

Ask any religion-news professional to list the top reporters on the beat in the late...

October 07, 2013

So long, GetReligion

It was about eight years ago exactly when I surprised Terry Mattingly by shouting his...

October 01, 2013

A more graceful Ross joins GetReligion crew

Some folks get annoyed when they read a news story with holes, a piece with...

September 2013

September 09, 2013

Ch-ch-ch-ch Changes again, here in GetReligion land

All together now, GetReligion readers. Strange fascination, fascinating me Changes are taking the pace I'm...

September 08, 2013

What is the X-factor in Syrian bloodshed? DUH! (updated)

It seems that many networkers in the online world remain fired up about that recent...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Kudos for Quartz’s coverage of business and religion

“Business is religion, and religion is business,” said Maltbie Babcock. “The man who does not...

July 29, 2013

Snickering at FoxNews while getting duped by ‘Zealot’ author

Many of us who came of age during the birth of New Media are reflexively...

July 19, 2013

Intrigue in the wide, wide world of the religion-news beat?

For several days now, I have been very curious about an item related to mainstream...

June 2013

June 10, 2013

Spotting the sacred ghost in the era of iWeddings

Let me begin with a few confessions. First of all, let me stress that I...

May 2013

May 12, 2013

WWROD? Another stab at defining the word ‘evangelical’

Long ago, I asked the Rev. Billy Graham a question that I really thought he,...

May 01, 2013

Joe Carter: From GetReligion reader to scribe

Having been a reader and fan of GetReligion, I’m thrilled and honored to be joining...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Breaking the silence on abortion doctors like Gosnell

Sometimes other people do such fine GetReligion-esque media criticism that we just like to point...

April 03, 2013

WWROD: So is atheism a belief system or not?

It's time for another GetReligion visit to the online domain of the Ridgewood Religion Guy,...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Render unto Google the things which are Google’s …

First of all, let me state right up front that it is hard to do...

March 30, 2013

So what was Pope Francis up to on Holy Thursday?

So, this pope vs. pope theme has been building, in mainstream coverage, during the amazing...

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 13, 2013

Yes! Pope Francis is not from Europe! (updated)

All together now: Raise your hands if you wanted to throw something at the television...