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December 2013

December 03, 2013

Missing nuns, missing details, in Maaloula (updated)

Trust me on this. I know that it must be impossible for journalists to cover...

November 2013

November 23, 2013

For BBC, Doctor Who faith is real, but never really Christmas

“Go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken...

November 18, 2013

Blessed corpses — and holy ghosts — after typhoon

Here's my nominee for "Most Bland Headline of the Weekend." It appeared atop an Associated Press report:...

November 15, 2013

People were massacred in North Korea for WHAT?!?

Contrary to popular belief, the mainstream press really isn't very effective when it comes to...

November 06, 2013

Grossman’s blog is back: Faith & Reason 2.0 at RNS

One of the first signs that the religion beat was in trouble at USA Today...

November 06, 2013

Porn no more: Secular students inviting religious discussion

Gone is the "low-hanging fruit" of years past when the media converged on the University...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

WPost examines the demons (and a ghost) in ‘The Exorcist’

It's that time of year again, the time when reporters keep trying to reach author...

October 29, 2013

Rihanna’s vague voguing in The Independent

What does "improper" mean when it comes to Rihanna -- the Bajan pop star? The...

October 29, 2013

Forgetting the kippah or crucifix (and the second why)

All-nighters and Domino's Pizza at the student newspaper. X-acto knives and 2-point tape. The smell...

October 28, 2013

What do different churches teach about mental illness?

ERIN ASKS: What are the attitudes toward mental illnesses in different Christian congregations? THE GUY...

October 26, 2013

Got news? Has Kristallnacht come to the Middle East?

There was always an important, yet unstated, idea at the heart of the "On Faith"...

October 25, 2013

Could Prince George’s baptism rekindle rite among British?

It would be impossible to compare coverage among major news outlets, so plentiful have been...

October 24, 2013

A Pope Francis story, from the other side of the notebook

Like many GetReligion readers, I was somewhat rattled by that recent Washington Post story about...

October 23, 2013

The Coptic ghost in those potential flights from Egypt

Let's start with a few journalistic questions. Am I surprised that The New York Times...

October 18, 2013

Lost in mobs, fire, guns and ink: Is Christ of Sinai safe?

What is the Mona Lisa worth? At the time of their destruction by the Taliban,...

October 16, 2013

Logic! What are they teaching at the NYTimes copy desk?

Let's carefully think our way -- one step at a time -- through this rather...

October 15, 2013

Pay no attention to Rand Paul (or Christian persecution!)

A Washington Post Politics news blog on Senator Rand Paul's appearance before the Value Voters...

October 04, 2013

Pod people: Deja vu on global persecution of Christians

As a rule, I don't discuss the contents of one of my new Scripps Howard...

October 02, 2013

Pew news: You don’t have to be religious to be Jewish

Readers (and bloggers) "of a certain age" will recall the famous advertising campaign for Levy's...

October 02, 2013

LATimes looks at Egypt; sees only signs of Islamic life

Over the past two years, your GetReligionistas have frequently urged (one example here) journalists to...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

To use or not to use: Journalists and the word ‘Islam’

Do you ever get the impression, when reading mainstream news stories, that some editors have...

September 26, 2013

Got news? Pope Francis speaks — this time the media blink

It's safe to assume that, at this moment in time, Pope Francis is a rock...

September 23, 2013

Nairobi: Recite this confession of faith and live

The hellish events in Nairobi's Westgate Premier Shopping Mall continue to unfold under the digital...

September 22, 2013

Terrorists shred faithful at generic Pakistani church

Yesterday was Kenya and, of course, the killing there isn't over yet. Today, there is...

September 22, 2013

Pod people: Religion and mass shootings

The Crossroads podcast this week was devoted to discussion of covering shootings. And in the...

September 21, 2013

Religious facts in the slaughter in upscale Nairobi mall

Based on the mainstream media reports pouring out of Kenya, it's clear that the terrorist...

September 20, 2013

Pope Francis on sin, confession and several other things

It was a story that received very little attention in the United States, other than...

September 18, 2013

Did Aaron Alexis fall into a hole in ‘American’ Buddhism?

It's a sad comment on our age that, in the first tense hours after the...

September 16, 2013

Was the Navy gunman Buddhist? Does it matter?

Some 12 people were killed by a gunman at Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yards on Monday...

September 11, 2013

Ghost in that NYTimes Justice Kennedy hagiography

It's time for a quick dip into my unusually thick GetReligion folder of guilt, that...