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July 2014

July 14, 2014

Hero or troubled soul: Dallas pastor takes his life

Right from the start, a long Page 1 story in The Dallas Morning News portrays the...

June 2014

June 08, 2014

United (for now) Methodists and the same-sex debate

Amid talk of a possible schism over homosexuality, the United Methodist Church is back in the news....

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Boy, you got a prayer in … the drive-thru lane

I'll never forget a sermon I heard as a young boy — mainly because I...

May 27, 2014

United Methodists stand at a ‘tipping point’ — once again

Yes, it's time to head into yet another oldline Protestant summer of sex. This leads...

March 2014

March 23, 2014

Surprise! Dallas Morning News finds a Methodist to quote

Once or twice (or maybe three or four or five times) in recent weeks, we...

March 13, 2014

Pod people: There really are two sides to every story, folks

The stories we critique here at GetReligion usually fall into one of two categories. First...

March 11, 2014

United Methodism doctrine? Think location, location, location

Sherman, please set the controls of the GetReligion WABAC (pronounced "wayback") machine for the year...

March 11, 2014

Giving both sides a voice in Methodist same-sex debate

Maybe you've noticed, but your normally friendly GetReligionistas get grumpy when newspapers write one-sided stories....

March 06, 2014

Dallas Morning News advocacy journalism, the prequel

Pardon me, Dallas Morning News. We underestimated you. I'll explain what I mean in a...

March 04, 2014

Dallas paper advocates for Methodist same-sex marriage

Let's try this again. I thought Tamie "wife of this blogger" Ross had a catchy...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

If at first you don’t succeed … find another source

Tis a lesson you should heed: Try, try again. If at first you don't succeed,...

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...

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...

November 19, 2013

Is there a religion ghost in Liz Cheney’s closet or not?

As we have watched the gossipy headlines roll past in recent days, I have found...

November 17, 2013

Here we go again: That new normal on SSM coverage

At this point, I think it is safe to say -- as our own Bobby...

November 07, 2013

Still another one-sided same-sex marriage story

Here we go again. A major media organization has published still another one-sided story on the...