Search Results for: WWROD

WWROD: When reporters fail to get religion ….

December 31, 2012 by

A quick online confession: Yes, I am “Terry in D.C.” You see, while I am not in D.C. at the moment, I was inside the only Beltway that really matters at the time that I fired off a quick question to veteran religion-beat writer Richard Ostling at his weblog, Religion Q&A: The Ridgewood Religion Guy [Read More...]

Filed Under: Announcements, Books, Godbeat, Journalism, Religion Tagged With: , ,

WWROD: Which denominations do what well?

December 22, 2012 by

So, GetReligion readers, have you submitted a religion-rooted question yet to veteran scribe Richard Ostling, over at his new weblog? That would be the one called “Religion Q&A: The Ridgewood Religion Guy answers your questions” (click here for some background). Anyway, this week’s Ostling offering here at GetReligion focuses on a question that is sure [Read More...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Evangelicals, Mainline, Orthodoxy, Pentecostalism, Religion, Worship Tagged With: , ,

WWROD: What the heck is a ‘denomination’ anyway?

December 14, 2012 by

As I mentioned the other day, one of the best religion-beat professionals ever — that would be Richard Ostling of Time and the Associated Press — has opened up a weblog here in the Patheos online universe. The name of the blog is “Religion Q&A: The Ridgewood Religion Guy answers your questions” and the goal [Read More...]

Filed Under: Announcements, Catholicism, Evangelicals, Godbeat, Judaism, Mainline, Religion, Web/Tech Tagged With: , ,

So, what do Southern Baptists have to do to get some ink?

May 7, 2013 by

A couple of years ago the Southern Baptist Convention explored the option of changing their name to better reflect the national and international nature of the denomination. I thought at the time that it might be helpful to change the name to the “The Episcopal Church” so that the national news media would finally acknowledge [Read More...]

Filed Under: Baptists, Evangelicals, Mainline, Religion, Social Issues Tagged With: , , , , ,

Richard Ostling — finally! — sets up an online camp

November 29, 2012 by

Anyone who has followed GetReligion for very long knows what the letters WWROD stand for. I mean, the first reference of this kind showed up only a few weeks into the blog’s existence, way back in 2004. WWROD? We’re asking, What Would Richard Ostling Do? Ostling, of course, is the former religion-beat pro at Time, [Read More...]

Filed Under: Academia, Anglicanism, Announcements, Godbeat, Journalism, Religion, Web/Tech

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