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July 2014

July 25, 2014

Islam, ISIS and the FGM fatwa

Reporting from the front lines of the Middle East conflicts be a parlous experience if...

July 19, 2014

Calvin the Fundamentalist and other General Synod myths

Monday's vote by the General Synod to allow women bishops has put the Church of...

July 13, 2014

Resistance to the Guardian is futile

The General Synod of the Church of England -- the legislative organ of the Protestant...

May 2014

May 22, 2014

On St. Ruth and the state of Fleet Street religion news

Sad news to report from the Press Gazette, the trade newspaper for British journalism. On May...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

Buddhists boldly bully buzzed Brits

The obnoxious Englishman abroad is a well loved story in the British press. The opprobrium...

February 2014

February 06, 2014

The Guardian: Ridiculing the saints, the Virgin and prayer

Why do we fight? Why do we write? What motivates our editor tmatt and the...

February 03, 2014

Tweeting Mohammad

The Mohammad cartoon controversy has resurfaced over the past week with a flutter over a...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Finding a faith angle in the Ukraine

A spate of wire service photos from the demonstrations in Kiev may have awakened the...

January 03, 2014

Francis the homophile

With but a few exceptions, the "Francis is nicer than Benedict" meme continues to entrance...

December 2013

December 03, 2013

Viva la Eurorévolution

Religion ghosts haunt the stories out of Kiev this week, but the Western press has...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Pod people: Indulgences & WYD in The Guardian

Coverage in The Guardian, the Catholic doctrine of purgatory and the editorial board of The...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

Put not your trust in Huffington Post headlines

I know a maiden fair to see, Take care! She can both false and friendly...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Pod people: Presby-speak again

The meaningless drivel that passes for public language these days was the major theme of my...

May 23, 2013

Scotland the confused: Did Presbyterians back gay clergy?

Something happened on Monday at the General Assembly the Church of Scotland -- they appear...

May 16, 2013

Paedophilia and the left redux

Absent a priestly predator is paedophilia a religion news story? In comments posted in response...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

Hypocrisy, grace and a fallen cardinal

The downfall of Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain's senior Roman Catholic cleric, has not shown the...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

Podcast: English Anti-Catholicism & Ethiopian Lutheranism

Anti-Catholic bias is alive and well in Britain -- however the animus to the "Italian...

February 19, 2013

Guardian wins week one of 2013 All-England pope-bashing contest

The year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

Pod people: Don’t mention the war!

"Don’t mention the war!” is the catch phrase from “The Germans” episode of the British...

December 18, 2012

The Guardian does not get Tim Scott

Amongst your GetReligion correspondents I was the last to board the twitter train. Now I...