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July 2014

July 09, 2014

Brazil’s faith in football: What happens after the apocalypse?

If you know anything about the sport the world calls "football," then you know that...

July 02, 2014

ESPN features pastor who loves umpires, hates baseball

Pastor Dean Esskew is provides a religious outlet for professional baseball umpires. pic.twitter.com/uUEAZ2kadR— [...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

ESPN offers faith-free version of Isaiah Austin’s testimony

If you care about what is happening in modern, multi-platform journalism then you have to...

May 2014

May 25, 2014

Short 30 for 30 slam dunk that gets the faith angle just right

You have to be a pretty intense hoops fan to remember many of the details...

February 2014

February 07, 2014

Pod people: Russell Wilson, ghosts, 10 years of GetReligion

Let's do this one backwards. In a perfect world, the easy way to do mainstream...

November 2013

November 08, 2013

That holy ghost in Baylor head coach’s guilt and grief

Right now, Baylor University coach Art Briles is one of the hottest leaders in college...

October 2013

October 20, 2013

The return of Baylor football, minus all that Baptist stuff

Way back when I was in college, soon after the cooling of the earth's crust,...

June 2013

June 07, 2013

Why did a Catholic Raven skip White House visit? (updated)

Let's create a journalism parable. Let's say that there is a Republican president in office...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

The Broussard brouhaha and why context matters

Context matters. Take the brouhaha that has brewed over comments ESPN NBA reporter Chris Broussard...

February 2013

February 03, 2013

Super Bowl: Ray Lewis is Ray Lewis — deal with it

I have said it before and I will say it again. I know that, as...