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May 2014

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....

March 2014

March 21, 2014

DPA reports on the return of the Eternal Jew to Württemberg

What is legal is not always moral, a German court observed this past week, holding...

December 2013

December 02, 2013

CNN puts religious liberty in scare quotes, but corrects it

It was one of the most famous First Amendment cases in American history. As the...

November 2013

November 12, 2013

The New York Times shilling for Obamacare, in news copy

Religious liberty claims advanced in opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) are a cloak...

November 11, 2013

All together now: Archbishop Lori leads WHAT committee?

It's that time, again. The U.S. Catholic bishops are back in Baltimore and the agenda...

November 06, 2013

Grossman’s blog is back: Faith & Reason 2.0 at RNS

One of the first signs that the religion beat was in trouble at USA Today...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Praying Jews flock to the Temple Mount; world notices

If there is a "Ground Zero" for the world's three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity...

August 2013

August 21, 2013

Interesting Rowan Williams apology: And important, too

Let us return, for a moment, to that interesting quote the other day from the...

August 21, 2013

Should CNN editor accept religious liberty award?

A Religion Dispatches blog post this week noted that CNN Godbeat pro Eric Marrapodi will receive the first...

August 02, 2013

WPost: Virginia law highlights stupidity of home-schooling

This is the headline that ran on a 2,500-word Washington Post story Sunday: Student's home-schooling highlights...

July 2013

July 05, 2013

Watching for ghosts in the news flashes from Egypt

A few journalistic thoughts while I continue to watch the waves of news coverage rolling...

June 2013

June 29, 2013

Same-sex marriage and a conscience clash, via CNN

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage, CNN's "Belief Blog" features an...

June 27, 2013

Wait, Baltimore’s archbishop is a national voice on WHAT?

As one would imagine, the editorial team that produces the newspaper that lands in my...

June 10, 2013

Southern Baptists on the downhill slide?

This just in from The Associated Press: Southern Baptists are having a tough time. But...

May 2013

May 21, 2013

How To Be A Lousy Journalist

Over at Intercollegiate Review, I have a piece with some helpful journalism tips. Here's how...

May 16, 2013

Protip: Religious liberty is a civil liberty

Let's begin this post with a quick definition from Burton's Legal Thesaurus, 4th edition: civil...

May 13, 2013

Should pro-choice activists be asked Gosnell questions?

The New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a Mother's Day interview with, who else, the...

May 12, 2013

Pod people: Proselytization, blasphemy and Gosnell

On this week's Crossroads podcast with host Todd Wilken, we talked media coverage of the...

May 09, 2013

Let’s revisit Benghazi and the 1st Amendment

If you didn't get a chance to watch the Benghazi whistleblowers testify before Congress yesterday,...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

Polyamory, pessimism and other same-sex marriage ink

After years of pointing out how unbelievably unprofessional the journalism of same-sex marriage coverage was,...

March 05, 2013

Covering Cal Baptist, MTV, the law and gender identity

Here we go again, once more into the legal thicket that surrounds private colleges and...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

Got news? Freeing Saeed Abedini

I'm frequently pondering what makes news and what doesn't. Take a gander at this Google...

February 04, 2013

Running the White House spin on HHS regulations

If news is ever going to break on your beat, it will break on Friday...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

How PR attempt against Life Marchers played out at MSNBC

Earlier this week, I looked at how a PR push from a progressive group called...

January 09, 2013

Foggy beliefs lead to church-state crisis in hospital

One of my graduate-school professors had a saying that summed up one of the central...

January 04, 2013

Symbolic defeat for a Christian business in Maryland

After spending more than a week on the road, I returned home -- as always...

January 02, 2013

Got news? That other 2012 Supreme Court case

Does anyone out there in GetReligion reader land remember that narrow U.S. Supreme Court decision...

December 2012

December 14, 2012

Got news? Judge ‘mocks’ Obama’s religious-liberty move

The most control the media have in the news process is determining what stories get...

December 08, 2012

On same-sex marriage: What is the chief justice thinking?

People who study the dynamics of this U.S. Supreme Court have, from the get-go, assumed...

December 03, 2012

Pod people: Can the MSM find centrists in gay-rights wars?

As a journalist, there are few things that I find more interesting than listening to...