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2013-09-05T13:30:32-04:00

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So this renegade Polish priest and an Episcopal bishop walk into a bar …

Last updated on: September 5, 2013 at 1:30 pm By mollie

OK, not really. But you know how we’re always going on about stories that make people not affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church seem like they are, in fact, affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church? Well, here’s a great example of a religion journalist doing it right. Here’s the very top of St. Louis Post-Dispatch religion reporter Tim Townsend explaining part of a complicated scenario: It has stood up to three Catholic bishops. It has weathered a decade-long legal storm.... Read more

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2013-09-04T12:26:09-04:00

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AP embraces cliches, labels in seminary prez profile

Last updated on: September 4, 2013 at 12:26 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Yawn. Sorry, I just finished reading The Associated Press’ feeble attempt at profiling Albert Mohler on his 20th anniversary as president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. From the start, the story reads like a reporter (in this case, more than one reporter since it has a double byline!) and editor got together and decided to see how many cliches and labels they could mix together in one shallow report. Instead of providing insight into Mohler, the... Read more

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2013-09-05T07:27:08-04:00

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Hey AP: Where is religious left on religious liberty issues?

Last updated on: September 5, 2013 at 7:27 am By tmatt

A long, long time ago, 1998 to be precise, I wrote a column marking the 10th anniversary of my weekly “On Religion” column for the Scripps Howard News Service. I opened it with an observation about one of the major changes I had witnessed on the religion beat during the previous 20 years or so. Add that all up and we’re talking about events in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. At the top, I noted that, when covering... Read more

2013-09-03T14:19:21-04:00

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PBS: Understanding Syria (minus any nasty religion stuff)

Last updated on: September 3, 2013 at 2:19 pm By tmatt

So here we go again. This weekend I mentioned an online explainer piece served up by The Washington Post that pointed readers toward essential Twitter feeds linked to the civil war in Syria. The news-you-can-use pledge: Read these Twitter feeds and you’ll know what you need to know to understand the chaos and bloodshed in Syria. Maybe, maybe not. I thought it was interesting that, after looking these Twitter feeds over a bit, it appears that the Post thinks that... Read more

2013-09-03T10:53:19-04:00

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Jake Tapper on opinion journalism masquerading as news

Last updated on: September 3, 2013 at 10:53 am By mollie

I’m a longtime fan of Jake Tapper of CNN, and formerly of ABC News. I like that he asks tough but reasonable questions of politicians, regardless of which party they’re in. I like that he reports and presents the news without his opinion. I like that he’s not defensive when someone critiques his work. Defensiveness is something we all suffer from, but we journalists seem to have it worse than most. But Tapper, being a high profile reporter, gets a... Read more

2013-09-01T20:44:52-04:00

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How to follow totally secular Syria news on Twitter

Last updated on: September 1, 2013 at 8:44 pm By tmatt

The goal here at GetReligion is, of course, to look at the good and the bad in mainstream news coverage of religion events and trends. This means we devote 99 percent of our time to news articles. That’s no surprise. Yet, in the Internet age, more and more newsrooms are offering — online — an expanded menu of materials that are RELATED to the news in ways that are hard to label. Some fit under the whole “news you can... Read more

2013-09-01T13:18:17-04:00

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Was Seamus Heaney a Catholic poet?

Last updated on: September 1, 2013 at 1:18 pm By geoconger

Religion’s never mentioned here,’ of course. ‘You know them by their eyes,’ and hold your tongue. ‘One side’s as bad as the other,’ never worse. Christ, it’s near time that some small leak was sprung In the great dykes the Dutchman made To dam the dangerous tide that followed Seamus. Yet for all this art and sedentary trade I am incapable. So begins Section III of Seamus Heaney’s “Whatever You Say Say Nothing”, found in his 1975 collection of poems... Read more

2013-08-31T15:12:10-04:00

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Noooooooooooo!!! Godbeat losing a superstar

Last updated on: August 31, 2013 at 3:12 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

It's official: I'm leaving Post-Gazette 9/5 to be communications director for #Catholic @diopitt Thanks for a great 33 yrs in journalism — Ann Rodgers (@pgfaith) August 29, 2013 Please forgive the exclamation points in the title. But enough already. On the heels of Bob Smietana leaving The Tennessean, the impending departure of a religion-writing superstar rocked the Godbeat this week. Ann Rodgers, president of the Religion Newswriters Association, announced that she’s leaving the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after two decades. In a... Read more

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2013-08-30T19:07:33-04:00

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WWROD? What does sharia law look like in practice?

Last updated on: August 30, 2013 at 7:07 pm By tmatt

The other day, in a discussion of events in Egypt, I noted — once again — that there is no one Islam, no monolithic version of the same faith. The same thing is true of Islamic law, even among people who believe that they want to live in a society that is ruled in accordance with sharia. Click here to go back and catch up on that. This is a very complex subject and, even as I wrote that piece,... Read more

2013-08-30T16:13:33-04:00

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Should some marriages be scare-quoted?

Last updated on: August 30, 2013 at 4:13 pm By mollie

Many moons ago, when I was asking questions about why Religion News Service put “religious liberty” in quotes, defenders of the practice said it was just a way of signaling that while some people believe that a given issue deals with religious liberty, others do not. It’s a way to indicate that one is not taking sides on the matter. Astute readers noticed that if this were the policy, than we should see quotes around abortion “rights” and same-sex “marriage.”... Read more

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