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July 2014

July 10, 2014

Surprise! Same-sex couples produce happier kids, media say

Ordinarily, quality journalism benefits from solid information, concrete evidence and a healthy dose of skepticism....

July 08, 2014

The Boston Globe veers into the doctrines of ‘Kellerism’

Just the other day, I heard a long-time GetReligion reader use a very interesting new...

July 08, 2014

Back in Boston with abortion protesters and fair reporting!

I wasn’t expecting gifts for July 4 weekend, but I feel like I got one...

May 2014

May 02, 2014

Sensitive feature looks at caregivers’ work with the dying

Thank God, literally, that not all religion news stories are about terrorists or same-sex marriage...

March 2014

March 22, 2014

Do skewed churches deserve skewed coverage?

Funny, isn't it? So many people recoiled in horror at the judgmentalism of the Rev....

February 2014

February 13, 2014

Doing right by the pope — and by the readers

What a pleasure it is to see a writer do it right. So it's a...

January 2014

January 07, 2014

What can we say? Boston Globe hires John L. Allen, Jr.

For several decades now, I have been telling mainstream newsroom managers that all they have...

October 2013

October 15, 2013

Bravo, Boston Globe: An Episcopal anti-violence winner

I love a good story. Thanks to Lisa Wangsness, Godbeat writer for the Boston Globe, I...

October 02, 2013

Kleenex alert: Tale of tragedy, irony and Christianity

It's not every day that an obituary of a non-celebrity appears above the fold on...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

The Boston Globe shows how to write about church planters

Earlier this month I called a story about a church planter in Brooklyn the worst...

August 18, 2013

Scapegoating Bishop James Tengatenga

Dartmouth College President Philip J. Hanlon's decision to nix the appointment of Bishop James Tengatenga...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

Untangling the Tsarnaevs’ Muslim ties, carefully

On Friday we asked readers to send in thoughts on good and bad coverage of...