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September 2013

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...

September 06, 2013

Imagine Pope Francis; help artists win prizes

So, unless you have spent quite a bit of time on another planet in recent...

September 05, 2013

Spot the ghost in China’s material girls

Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me I think they're O.K. If they don't...

September 03, 2013

PBS: Understanding Syria (minus any nasty religion stuff)

So here we go again. This weekend I mentioned an online explainer piece served up...

September 02, 2013

How to follow totally secular Syria news on Twitter

The goal here at GetReligion is, of course, to look at the good and the...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

WWROD? What does sharia law look like in practice?

The other day, in a discussion of events in Egypt, I noted -- once again...

August 28, 2013

Pod people: What’s religion got to do with Egyptian tourism?

In the wake of the events of 9/11, I had the honor of taking part...

August 25, 2013

After Hasan trial: Spot big religion ghost in this story

The military trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan was never -- as a journalism story --...

August 23, 2013

What do Egyptians really mean when they say ‘sharia’?

One of the major themes in GetReligion posts about Islam over the past decade has...

August 23, 2013

Americans prejudiced against Al Jazeera?

The new cable news channel Al Jazeera America is drawing a lot of major media...

August 22, 2013

So, is Benedict XVI lying about motives for his retirement?

So let's say that The Telegraph prints a story from its Rome bureau about the...

August 20, 2013

LATimes sees the layers of threats against Copts in Egypt

The dominant story coming out of Egypt right now continues, and with good cause, to...

August 16, 2013

What did Pope Tawadros say? When did he say it? (updated)

At the pivotal event announcing the fall of President Mohamed Morsi, a number of symbolic...

August 15, 2013

Saith the WPost: So what’s really going on in Egypt?

My cellphone chimed at me earlier this afternoon with a news bulletin from CNN that...

August 14, 2013

Muslims kill Muslims, for no reasons that can be reported

The bloodshed in Egypt continues and, to be quite frank about it, it's hard to...

August 09, 2013

The New York Times misses battle for Belarus

I would like to draw your attention to a 28 July 2013 piece in the...

August 09, 2013

Following up on the Sikh temple shooting

I'm a sucker for a good follow-up story and the Associated Press hit this one...

August 09, 2013

Remember when Jesus went to Assiut? (Yeah, me neither.)

"Both Roman Catholic and Evangelical Protestant media have for years been drawing public attention to...

August 08, 2013

Not that there’s anything wrong with that …

Not that there's anything wrong with that ... A front-page Los Angeles Times headline this...

August 08, 2013

Major Nidal Hasan talks about faith, like it or not

Some may disagree, but I think we have reached the point where we can say...

August 06, 2013

USA Today offers faith-free look at meditation, stress

Journalists who try to cover the life and teachings of Deepak Chopra always face the...

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 30, 2013

Pope Francis’ 1st miracle: media coverage of mercy

A day after Popocalypse 2013 happened, we have the actual transcript of the remarks that...

July 29, 2013

The truly interfaith church of what’s happening now

From the very beginning of this weblog, your GetReligionistas have argued that some of America's...

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 26, 2013

NPR’s curiously biased quest for the historical Jesus

Did you know that Jesus wasn't really God? Despite what his disciples claim, he never...

July 25, 2013

A sad note of Orthodox reality in Eastern Europe

It's impossible to know precisely what is happening inside the mind of a politician when...

July 23, 2013

Pope trip: Time to play ‘spot the political sound bite’

The pope is abroad. This means, of course, that it is time to look at...

July 22, 2013

Can’t headline writers and reporters get on the same page?

We live in an age of unprecedented communications technology. With access to cell phones, Skype,...

July 09, 2013

Doing the bloody math in emerging civil war in Egypt

It appears that some members of the mainstream press are beginning to do the hard,...