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August 2013

August 19, 2013
Usually, we critique religion news here at GetReligion. Occasionally, we report on significant developments on...
August 18, 2013
Dartmouth College President Philip J. Hanlon's decision to nix the appointment of Bishop James Tengatenga...
August 16, 2013
At the pivotal event announcing the fall of President Mohamed Morsi, a number of symbolic...
August 16, 2013
One of the many products offered by Religion News Service is its daily round-up of...
August 15, 2013
My cellphone chimed at me earlier this afternoon with a news bulletin from CNN that...
August 15, 2013
The largest Lutheran group in the United States is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America....
August 15, 2013
Kudos to the Christian Science Monitor for correcting is 10 August 2013 story entitled “Churches...
August 14, 2013
I recently cataloged about 1,000 of my 1,300 or so vinyl records (the classical music...
August 14, 2013
The bloodshed in Egypt continues and, to be quite frank about it, it's hard to...
August 14, 2013
As a famous religious figure once said, “Ask and you shall receive.” Sometimes even we...
August 13, 2013
If you know anything about the Baltimore Ravens, then you probably know something about the...
August 13, 2013
The Godbeat reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel consistently does good work. "After 125 years,...
August 12, 2013
I didn't know much about the Rt. Rev. David Leighton -- the 11th diocese of...
August 12, 2013
The Christian Science Monitor has been tripped up by the African press and the internet,...
August 12, 2013
The Washington Post had a religion news blog item last week headlined, horrifyingly, "‘Some girls...
August 11, 2013
Having grown up in a large Catholic family that volunteered at her church, a former...
August 10, 2013
Man, that Tim Tebow is way more popular than he should be, in light of...
August 10, 2013
In the 1990s, before I became a religion writer, I covered education for The Oklahoman,...
August 09, 2013
I would like to draw your attention to a 28 July 2013 piece in the...
August 09, 2013
I'm a sucker for a good follow-up story and the Associated Press hit this one...
August 09, 2013
"Both Roman Catholic and Evangelical Protestant media have for years been drawing public attention to...
August 08, 2013
Not that there's anything wrong with that ... A front-page Los Angeles Times headline this...
August 08, 2013
Yesterday I found out about protest against the media's coverage of abortion. It's called March...
August 08, 2013
Some may disagree, but I think we have reached the point where we can say...
August 07, 2013
You might recall that the New York Times told readers Kermit Gosnell was on trial...
August 07, 2013
In one of the most famous Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Silver Blaze, the clue that led...
August 06, 2013
Journalists who try to cover the life and teachings of Deepak Chopra always face the...
August 06, 2013
It is my fallen nature that causes me to delight in stories about hypocrisy. We...
August 06, 2013
It's becoming clear that The Dallas Morning News has no regard for the F-word. Faith,...
August 05, 2013
The following is a picky little post about a story that kind of got under...
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