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July 2014

July 31, 2014

Wait? Who is calling who an ‘evangelical’ or ‘conservative’?

Bravo and a big amen to Religion News Service editor Kevin Eckstrom for a crisp...

July 30, 2014

Members mourn Atlanta church; why don’t they talk?

When a congregation has to leave its church building, it's like moving away from home....

July 28, 2014

Migrant children crossing the border: the religion angle

Amid the ongoing headlines - mostly political - over the thousands of migrant children crossing...

July 27, 2014

Mariam goes free, at last, while some questions linger

Other than editors trying to figure out the correct spelling of her name, there were...

July 22, 2014

The Mosul purge: How good is the media coverage?

The purge of Christians from Mosul in northern Iraq -- home to thriving Christian communities...

July 21, 2014

Yo editors: Can the state pay Catholics to help immigrants?

As usual, there was a stack of Baltimore Sun newspapers waiting for me at the...

July 11, 2014

In NYTimes piece, bias against AA is a hard habit to break

Sometimes our readers are sharper than us professional word pushers. One of them just dismantled...

July 01, 2014

NYTimes revisits high court’s abortion buffer zone ruling

In grading first-day coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court striking down a Massachusetts abortion buffer...

July 01, 2014

Middle East stories: The territory includes religion

Terrorists may have declared a new Islamic state in Iraq and Syria, but coverage of...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Mormon reformin’: Putting the antics in semantics

Welcome to the Latter-day Saints Trivia Game! Here is today's question: When did the Mormon...

June 23, 2014

NYTimes’ riveting portrait of a Christian in Afghanistan

I have no words to describe this story - A Christian Convert, on the Run...

June 17, 2014

Jihadists in Iraq: NYTimes reporting gets it right

After calling out the New York Times for misreporting several stories, I'm tempted to say...

June 13, 2014

Axing the wrong questions after Brat-Cantor stunner

There's analysis, and there's hack 'n' slash. When blindsided by the come-from-behind election of David...

June 11, 2014

In Irish children’s deaths, clarity doesn’t thrive in a septic tank

The accounts of cruelty, neglect and other abuse of children under Catholic Church care in...

June 09, 2014

Writing on houses of worship? Ignore the religious

Pop quiz: When you write about baseball or surgery, whom should you quote? That's right....

June 04, 2014

The silent swan song of Wojciech Jaruzelski

The silver Swan, who living had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat....

June 04, 2014

Bratwurst fest in Wisconsin: You never sausage intolerance

(Rubbing eyes) This is the New York Times, isn’t it? They’re being nice to conservatives...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

Is Cardinal Dolan’s star fading? NYTimes ‘somes’ it up

I’ve just made up a rule for reading news: The confidence a writer places in...

May 21, 2014

Forget Genesis: Adam and Eve make NYTimes front page

From the Bible's Genesis account of creation: The Lord God took the man and put him in...

May 19, 2014

Persecution in India: It matters only if it’s about Muslims

Nice to know the New York Times cares so much about religious freedom in India...

May 14, 2014

Missing elements in NYTimes marital rape report from India

Marriage was a hot topic this week in the Indian press following rulings by two...

May 13, 2014

NYTimes leans to the right in Christian legal profile?

No, the "socially liberal" New York Times didn't lean all the way to the right....

May 07, 2014

Boko Haram leader’s profile: chilling but incomplete

"His name is Abubakar Shekau. He is the leader of Boko Haram. And he has...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Same-sex marriage, religious freedom and a liberal twist

An extremely interesting — and potentially highly important — twist came Monday in the ongoing...

April 26, 2014

Was Kabul shooting over religion? Shouldn’t someone ask?

Q: What question has no answer? A: The one you don’t ask. In Thursday's shooting...

April 24, 2014

More on politics, sin and Louisiana’s kissing congressman

For anyone unfamiliar with Rep. Vance McAllister, he's a Louisiana congressman who ran on a...

April 21, 2014

Don’t divorce an NYT article from sharp reporting

It's especially crucial for journalists to, well, GetReligion when the story is about a "get."...

April 16, 2014

Vox.com offers a few basic facts about Boko Haram tactics

Twice in the past month or so, I have been pretty rough on the editors...

April 15, 2014

That ‘mysterious’ NYTimes stance on Boko Haram

Here we go again. There has been another horrific act of violence in Nigeria with...

April 14, 2014

For the Times, Ayaan Hirsi Ali controversy has only one side

Brandeis University offered an honorary degree to a controversial speaker, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, then withdrew...