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November 2012

November 22, 2012

The Pope hates Christmas

Breaking news from the Telegraph ... the newspaper's Rome reporter reports that one Joseph Ratzinger,...

November 21, 2012

On women bishops: Who voted ‘no’ and why?

To the shock of legions of mainstream reporters, the Church of England fell just short...

November 20, 2012

Polish anti-Semitism and the press

A new film that premiered last week has resurrected moral questions that some Poles hoped...

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 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 09, 2012

Reporting on gay marriage in Spain

Laying out the front page of the November 7 issue presented a few problems for...

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

Polish heavy metal clashes with mysterious blasphemy law

On some levels, the legal drama unfolding in Poland these days could be called the...

November 01, 2012

News Corp. discovers the atonement is child abuse

Did you know the atonement was a form of divine child abuse? Spend some time...

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 26, 2012

Economist offers rare insights into Salafists

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

October 26, 2012

European values after Auschwitz

Seventy years after the Holocaust, Germany has constructed the first monument honoring the half million...

October 24, 2012

What has God got to do with drones?

"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,"a United States major said today....

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

Occupy Poitres

Le Figaro, Le Monde and Libération are France's newspapers of record, the Presse de référence....

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 14, 2012

A quick, shallow visit to Mount Athos

Few subjects inspire the whole "National Geographic visits the strange natives" school of Godbeat journalism...

October 13, 2012

Pod people: saying goodbye

Friends of GetReligion, it is time for me to tip my hat and say farewell....

October 11, 2012

The anti-Semitic focus of French terrorism

You may recall media coverage regarding a kosher market in a suburb of Paris that...

October 11, 2012

ABC on Jesus the sky pixie

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live! These words close Vladimir Mayakovsky’s 1924 poem "Vladimir...

October 03, 2012

Blaming Islamists for a journalist’s kidnapping

When I first read that journalist Austin Tice had gone missing from Syria after August...

October 02, 2012

Ghosts appear when IKEA disappears women

What's the world coming from if you can't cater to Saudia Arabian consumers by airbrushing...

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 19, 2012

Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad cartoon crassness

Get ready GetReligion readers for the next twist in the Muslim outrage story. Today's issue...

September 18, 2012

Exorcism for fun and profit

The title of this story from the Agence France Presse (AFP), "Exorcism boom in Poland...

September 15, 2012

The missing anti-Muslim movie stories

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting, if completely unsurprising, update to the stories about...