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January 2014

January 17, 2014
Week after week, month after month, year after year, I write GetReligion posts in which...
January 17, 2014
A positive news story about a political newcomer isn't unusual. Newspapers and television outlets do...
January 16, 2014
Sometimes, in this tricky world of media criticism, it's hard to pay attention to what...
January 16, 2014
The financial difficulties facing the Washington National Cathedral were the subject of a local news...
January 15, 2014
Congrats to @RNS contributor @LillyAFowler, succeeding @townsendreport as #religion writer at @STLtoday. Starts Jan. 20....
January 15, 2014
Holy dictionary! Talk about leaving a crucial term in a story undefined, unexplained, unattributed or...
January 15, 2014
My home state of Oklahoma made big news Tuesday when a federal judge struck down...
January 14, 2014
So, GetReligion readers, it is time for short religion-news quiz. Raise your hands (or click...
January 14, 2014
Claims of bias and inaccurate reporting have dogged the Western press's coverage of Egypt since...
January 14, 2014
Proving that when there isn't really news, one can perhaps manufacture some, The New York Times...
January 13, 2014
First things first: Yes, I am a big Doctor Who fan. Thus, I find the...
January 13, 2014
London's Telegraph newspaper generally does a serviceable job when reporting on religion, but a recent commentary...
January 12, 2014
We are running out of football Sundays in this National Football League season, so I...
January 11, 2014
A few days ago, George Conger took to this space to "bury" The New York Times...
January 10, 2014
Through the years, your GetReligionistas tended to offer rather mixed views of the "On Faith"...
January 10, 2014
Sorry about this, folks, but we need to take a quick glance back at a...
January 10, 2014
I can't remember the last time I became so engrossed in a story. Perhaps it's...
January 09, 2014
Many moons ago -- just under a quarter of a century -- I covered a...
January 09, 2014
Earlier this week, I posted on Ryan Bell, the Seventh-day Adventist pastor who gave up his...
January 09, 2014
Rape and religion returned to the front pages of India's newspapers this week after a...
January 08, 2014
First of all, I would like to stress that I had already decided, several days...
January 08, 2014
Candace Cameron Bure, darling of '80s sitcom television, is all grown up. In case you're...
January 07, 2014
For several decades now, I have been telling mainstream newsroom managers that all they have...
January 07, 2014
In my opinion, looking to London's Daily Mail for religion news coverage is rather like looking...
January 07, 2014
DUANE ASKS: Are there different versions of the Quran or just different interpretations of the...
January 06, 2014
The most popular story on Religion News Service's website right now involves a Seventh-day Adventist...
January 06, 2014
First things first: I hope that readers who are into that whole Christian calendar had...
January 06, 2014
Mark Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not...
January 05, 2014
Regular readers will know that I have been arguing, for quite some time now, that...
January 04, 2014
Here's a shocker, but not really. More Democrats than Republicans believe in evolution, or so...
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