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July 2013

July 31, 2013
It's time for a quick dip into tmatt's massive file of GetReligion guilt, the cyber-place...
July 31, 2013
Of the many wonderful parts of the New York Times, my favorite is the obituary...
July 31, 2013
“Business is religion, and religion is business,” said Maltbie Babcock. “The man who does not...
July 30, 2013
Over the weekend, Rick Warren returned to the pulpit for the first time since his...
July 30, 2013
A day after Popocalypse 2013 happened, we have the actual transcript of the remarks that...
July 30, 2013
In the world of church-state studies, few puzzles are as tough to crack as those...
July 29, 2013
From the very beginning of this weblog, your GetReligionistas have argued that some of America's...
July 29, 2013
Ermagerd, everybody! The Pope has renounced all church teaching on everything! Stop the presses! Start...
July 29, 2013
Many of us who came of age during the birth of New Media are reflexively...
July 28, 2013
A few weeks ago, a lawsuit in Nevada made news because it revolved around alleged...
July 27, 2013
Hey, guess what? If you want to read the Bible online, there's an app for...
July 27, 2013
Here a photo op, there a photo op, everywhere a papal photo op. The question...
July 26, 2013
I'm in St. Louis this week at the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod's 65th regular convention. The...
July 26, 2013
Did you know that Jesus wasn't really God? Despite what his disciples claim, he never...
July 25, 2013
We believe only what we want to believe, George Orwell observed in 1945. "So far...
July 25, 2013
It's impossible to know precisely what is happening inside the mind of a politician when...
July 24, 2013
I love it when a good religion story gets people chatting. The New York Times...
July 24, 2013
As I have mentioned many times here at GetReligion, Deacon Greg Kandra's blog "The Deacon's...
July 23, 2013
The pope is abroad. This means, of course, that it is time to look at...
July 23, 2013
On the Planned Parenthood site is the headline pictured here about Rick Perry signing a...
July 23, 2013
Coverage in The Guardian, the Catholic doctrine of purgatory and the editorial board of The...
July 22, 2013
As I have mentioned before here at GetReligion, at the time of the Sept. 11...
July 22, 2013
We live in an age of unprecedented communications technology. With access to cell phones, Skype,...
July 22, 2013
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says: But he who did not know, yet committed...
July 21, 2013
We joke about having guilt files here at GetReligion -- folders full of stories that...
July 20, 2013
A poor outing from Religion News Service this week in its article about the passage...
July 20, 2013
Every now and then, reseachers/activists in a think tank somewhere pull out a major study...
July 19, 2013
Does your pastor wear v-neck shirts, have tattoos on both forearms, and ride a fixed-gear...
July 19, 2013
For several days now, I have been very curious about an item related to mainstream...
July 18, 2013
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