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January 2014

January 10, 2014

So what is the new ‘On Faith’ about, in these early days?

Through the years, your GetReligionistas tended to offer rather mixed views of the "On Faith"...

December 2013

December 27, 2013

WPost discovers the bleeding obvious about liturgy today

Basil Fawlty: Can't we get you on Mastermind, Sybil? Next contestant: Mrs. Sybil Fawlty from...

December 18, 2013

Ghosts in those one-sided reports about victims in Syria

Rare is the day that I do not receive at least one or two emails...

December 13, 2013

Pope Francis and the press: What Elizabeth Tenety said!

First came the religion-beat buzz about Pope Francis being named Person of the Year by...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Hey WPost: What did Pope Francis say about abortion?

It is a serious understatement to note that Pope Francis has made more than his...

November 01, 2013

Ghosts in blue-state — er, red-state — West Virginia?

There's a lot to digest in the Washington Post's nearly 4,000-word political road trip to West...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

Got news? Has Kristallnacht come to the Middle East?

There was always an important, yet unstated, idea at the heart of the "On Faith"...

October 16, 2013

Football and prayer story: touchdown or incomplete pass?

A Washington Post sports story caught my attention with this intriguing headline: Faith and football...

October 15, 2013

Pay no attention to Rand Paul (or Christian persecution!)

A Washington Post Politics news blog on Senator Rand Paul's appearance before the Value Voters...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

To use or not to use: Journalists and the word ‘Islam’

Do you ever get the impression, when reading mainstream news stories, that some editors have...

September 26, 2013

Breaking! Politician says Christianity is only true religion

A headline from the Washington Post: E.W. Jackson says non-Christians are engaged in 'some sort...

September 25, 2013

Taking a legal walk in a church’s non-religious woods

For decades, I have been covering stories involving clashes between religious organizations and state and...

September 23, 2013

Triumph of the stringer in the Nairobi massacre coverage

African reporters are coming into their own with the stories coming out of Kenya this...

September 18, 2013

Faith and ghosts in Navy Yard victim story

I sympathize with any journalist called upon to report on victims' loved ones in the...

September 16, 2013

Was the Navy gunman Buddhist? Does it matter?

Some 12 people were killed by a gunman at Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yards on Monday...

September 09, 2013

Is a global fast for Syria a local news story?

According to Catholic News Agency: Pope Francis made a global petition on Sept. 1 asking...

September 03, 2013

Jake Tapper on opinion journalism masquerading as news

I'm a longtime fan of Jake Tapper of CNN, and formerly of ABC News. I...

September 02, 2013

How to follow totally secular Syria news on Twitter

The goal here at GetReligion is, of course, to look at the good and the...

August 2013

August 24, 2013

Religion and the 1963 March on Washington

August 28 is the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. There's a huge...

August 15, 2013

Saith the WPost: So what’s really going on in Egypt?

My cellphone chimed at me earlier this afternoon with a news bulletin from CNN that...

August 14, 2013

Hey Mr. DJ, put some praise music on

As a famous religious figure once said, “Ask and you shall receive.” Sometimes even we...

August 12, 2013

Married 60 times before age 18 in Egypt

The Washington Post had a religion news blog item last week headlined, horrifyingly, "‘Some girls...

August 10, 2013

Pod people: A little GetEducation for GetReligion

In the 1990s, before I became a religion writer, I covered education for The Oklahoman,...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

Big tests for media’s abortion message machine

Someone on Twitter noticed something illuminating about mainstream media coverage of social issues that's worth...

July 06, 2013

A Newtown massacre in Nigeria, with ghosts

Absolutely horrific news out of Nigeria today. From the Associated Press: POTISKUM, Nigeria — Islamic...

July 05, 2013

Why atheists who pray should still be called atheists

What do you call someone who reads the Bible, attends church, prays daily, and believes...

June 2013

June 16, 2013

Pod people: media struggles mightily with abortion coverage

On this week's Crossroads, host Todd Wilken and I discussed that embarrassing BuzzFeed confusion --...

June 10, 2013

Is the ‘New Evangelization’ a laughing matter?

In America there are two career fields that have a disproportionate number of agnostics and...

June 07, 2013

At WPost, even local abortion crime isn’t newsworthy

On May 25, I tweeted out the image at the top of this post with...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Media coverage of religious profiling

So tmatt has us all doing this experiment of reading a daily paper. I haven't...