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February 2013

February 06, 2013

About those Orthodox hermits in the Siberian wild

Every now and then, someone sends your GetReligionistas the URL for a story that is...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Kwanzaa, Manti Te’o and respect

I enjoy reading other media critics and ombudsmen, (er, ombudspersons?) and thought about discussing this...

January 19, 2013

India and rape: Spotting some tricky ghosts

In about 99 percent of the mainstream news reports you will ever read about India...

January 18, 2013

Tibet is burning

Let me commend for your reading this AP article by reporter Gillian Wong on the...

January 17, 2013

WWROD: Faith and those news stories about civil rights

It's been a few weeks -- with Christmas season travel and all -- since your...

January 16, 2013

Scientology comes to The Atlantic

The internet freaked out this week when an advertisement done in the "Sponsored Content" style...

January 11, 2013

Syrian sniper offers thoughts on life, death and faith

Anyone who has been to the Middle East, or who has spent much time talking...

December 2012

December 25, 2012

Xmas quiet in Jerusalem? Check the Julian calendar

Along with millions of other Americans, I am on the road this fine Christmas Day....

December 23, 2012

Galileo meets the Mayan apocalypse

Far and away my favorite headline of Friday was the one that ran in the...

December 20, 2012

The nones on the bus

This week the Pew folks came out with a large Global Religious Landscape report. It's...

December 19, 2012

Christians are numerous. What’s their problem?

Yesterday, Pew came out with a new "Global Religious Landscape" report. Much of the media...

December 18, 2012

Dancing alone in that D.C. Franciscan hermitage?

Back in my Rocky Mountain News days, I covered an ecumenical gathering in Boulder, Colo.,...

December 12, 2012

Generic Armenians fleeing Syria for no particular reason

For news consumers who are closely following events on the ground in Syria, especially those...

December 06, 2012

Some journalists waking up to Egyptian realities?

Day after day the news from Egypt seems to get darker and more confusing. This...

December 05, 2012

Memory eternal: A giant of Orthodoxy has died

Let me state right up front that, as a member of an Antiochian Orthodox parish,...

December 01, 2012

Covering Catholics who are more like ‘Catholics’

GetReligion readers may recall the case of young Lennon Cihak, who -- at the very...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

Jesus wept? One-sided debate from Mumbai

Where to begin? So we have this very dedicated GetReligion reader who has been sending...

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 12, 2012

What should be tweeted via @ThroneOfPeter?

Let's drop the media criticism for a moment and have a bit of fun (about...

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

The Hot Dog theory of history

It is touching to see that in spite of everything that has happened over the...

November 02, 2012

Risking lives to save souls in Mexico

Before I left on a mission trip south of the U.S. border this past spring,...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Serious story on separation of yoga and state

When I saw this story come in (clicking on a URL from a reader), I...

October 26, 2012

Economist offers rare insights into Salafists

I have a friend who once worked for Time (actually, several people fit under that...

October 22, 2012

Bloodshed in Saudi Arabia, for some non-religious reasons

Some of the world's most important religion-news stories are also the hardest for your GetReligionistas...

October 15, 2012

God-shaped hole in story on Hong Kong protests

Every now and then, when I a traveling, I discover another layer of torn-out articles...

October 10, 2012

WPost further expands borders of postmodern Catholicism

For several decades now, people linked to Jewish institutions have debated whether it is possible...

October 01, 2012

A religiously fashionista story

I love a good fashion story, especially one that taps into religion behind the inspiration...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Missing canaries in the Damascus coal mine

I realize that, as a member of an Antiochian Orthodox Christian parish, my concerns about...

September 07, 2012

Sex and the Single Indian

The BBC's inability to comprehend religion is not a new story at GetReligion. Often as...