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July 2014

July 26, 2014

Those pesky religious details in Palestinian-Israel conflict

I'm no expert on the fighting in the Gaza Strip. In fact, I'm typing this...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

What language did Jesus speak? The Tablet knows

So, did the pope and Israel's prime minister have a rancorous exchange in Jerusalem over...

May 21, 2014

WPost probes hot debate on the banks of River Jordan

I have crossed the Jordan River twice in my life and both times the experience...

January 2014

January 19, 2014

On the cautious use of loaded terms such as ‘messianism’

So let's try this again. The other day I wrote about a news report that...

January 15, 2014

Whoa! Was John Kerry being too messianic or Messianic?

Holy dictionary! Talk about leaving a crucial term in a story undefined, unexplained, unattributed or...

September 2013

September 21, 2013

Religious facts in the slaughter in upscale Nairobi mall

Based on the mainstream media reports pouring out of Kenya, it's clear that the terrorist...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

The controversial mind and Lebanese soul of Helen Thomas

As I have mentioned before here at GetReligion, at the time of the Sept. 11...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

Telling the ‘truth’ in Hamas-Israeli conflict

Here's another story that I wanted to cover last week before I got injured and...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

Rape and religion in Israel

Here's a proposition for GetReligion readers: The quality of a news article should be measured...