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May 2014

May 20, 2014

Baptists ‘unofficially’ changing doctrine on homosexuality?

Southern Baptist leaders are seeking a "softer approach on homosexuality," reports National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."...

February 2014

February 11, 2014

United Methodists fighting over gay marriage — period?

Maybe it's because I covered religion in Colorado during the 1980s, but I find it...

January 2014

January 16, 2014

Journalists editing Pope Francis: Who are we to judge?

Sometimes, in this tricky world of media criticism, it's hard to pay attention to what...

January 03, 2014

Francis the homophile

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

December 2013

December 23, 2013

Pod people: Time’s betrayal of liberalism

Time magazine's exercise in gay agitprop was the focus of Thursday's Get Religion's Crossroads podcast....

December 21, 2013

That oh-so-predictable CNN article on ducks and doctrine

So color me confused. At the moment, CNN is hailing this article -- "Does Phil...

December 20, 2013

Duck czar: World-class sinner who has been there, done that

A long, long time ago -- pre-World Wide Web -- I wrote a column for...

December 11, 2013

On Pope Francis: What matters most is, ‘Who am I to judge?’

Pope Francis has been warned. The powers that be at Time magazine have named him...

December 04, 2013

Did Father Donald Timone ever say, ‘Pray away the gay’?

Not that long ago, our own Mark Kellner took at look at the New York...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Pod people: LA Times cheers for United Methodist ‘reform’

If readers want to know where The Los Angeles Times stands on the issues the...

November 20, 2013

WPost listens to half of the great United Methodist debate

After years of covering the sexuality wars in America's oldline denominations, I am well aware...

August 2013

August 19, 2013

AP badly flubs Catholic teaching

The media's obsession with sexualityism is somehow getting even more pronounced. We have a backlog...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Pope Francis’ 1st miracle: media coverage of mercy

A day after Popocalypse 2013 happened, we have the actual transcript of the remarks that...

July 29, 2013

Media obsession dangers: Pope and gay priests edition

Ermagerd, everybody! The Pope has renounced all church teaching on everything! Stop the presses! Start...

July 17, 2013

Boy Scouts: Hollywood vs. some vague army of Americans

On one level, the recent Reuters "special report" on the financial issues haunting the 10,600-acre...

July 03, 2013

Painful silences in CBS chat on same-sex marriage rulings

OK, follow me carefully here, because it is especially interesting who passed the following item...

July 01, 2013

A tune on gay evangelicals that evangelicals won’t recognize

While working on a recording together, Johnny Cash asked Bob Dylan if he knew "Ring...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

Pod people: Vatican gay lobby or a gay Lobby?

Where should the stress be placed in Pope Francis' phrase the "gay lobby"? Upon the...

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...

June 13, 2013

Holy Scouts! Southern Baptists didn’t do what we expected!

So, when push came to shove, what did the Southern Baptist Convention decide to do...

June 01, 2013

Churches dumping Boy Scouts over gay policy … or not?

Godbeat pro Bob Smietana wrote a story this week exploring whether churches will keep sponsoring Boy...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

The big questions facing that out gay Catholic priest

It is my experience, through my decades on the religion beat, that liberal Catholics genuinely...

March 2013

March 01, 2013

Bishop enforces Catholic doctrine; press goes, ‘Wha …?’

A regular reader who is an active Catholic recently sent us a URL to an...

February 2013

February 24, 2013

Where’s the faith content in these sex scandals?

On one level, that New York Times feature story on the fall of Msgr. Kevn...

February 22, 2013

Unnecessary words and the Vatican’s ‘gay lobby’

Yesterday a reader tweeted that The Guardian was clearly trying to insinuate that Pope Benedict...

February 12, 2013

Day 2: Pope still extremely Catholic

I hope everyone is having a blast with Day 2 of Papalpalooza. I've actually enjoyed...

January 2013

January 22, 2013

At Obama inauguration, not all religion is biblical

Yesterday was a big day for the country, with the second inauguration of President Barack...

January 11, 2013

Affirm homosexuality now … or else

Washington Post Book World fiction editor Ron Charles tweeted out this morning: Changing times: Gay...

November 2012

November 14, 2012

New York Times on gay Pakistan

Altogether now, let's chant: World Ends Tomorrow: Women and Minorities Hit Hardest! Mort Sahl is...