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March 2014

March 31, 2014
PAUL ASKS: (Regarding the World Vision relief agency deciding U.S. employees can live in same-sex...
March 31, 2014
Once again, spring has arrived here in the land of the two Beltways -- after...
March 31, 2014
Sometimes, anecdotes are a wellspring for indepth reporting. Other times, it just leads to wishful...
March 30, 2014
The Associated Press has a story out today on a former bishop of the Church...
March 29, 2014
Let's do the math. We will start with these dates: August 15-18, 1969. So if...
March 28, 2014
It took a few days, but the newspaper of record has now produced a solid...
March 28, 2014
There's no such thing as bad publicity — at least that's how the saying goes....
March 28, 2014
Can you have a meeting of minds when you don’t agree on what you discussed...
March 27, 2014
So what about that World Vision story? Several things need to be said right up...
March 27, 2014
A USA Today headline declares: 'Noah' hits rough religious waters on-screen The top of the...
March 26, 2014
At some point, coming-out stories about faith-claiming celebrities, musicians, politicians — anyone in the public...
March 26, 2014
Outrage is a tricky thing. The worldview a reporter brings to the coverage of a...
March 25, 2014
Aaaaiiieeeee! More "devout Catholics!" No, wait. The Washington Post seems here to be using the...
March 25, 2014
Long ago, I worked in for a newspaper that published a large, large feature story...
March 25, 2014
Hobby Lobby gets its hearing before the Supreme Court this morning. This is big, folks....
March 24, 2014
Long, long ago, I covered religion news during the era in which Cardinal Joseph Bernardin...
March 24, 2014
MADDIE ASKS: What caused ancient religions to become less prevalent? THE RELIGION GUY ANSWERS: Our...
March 24, 2014
You know that cliché about some stories writing themselves? Well, sometimes a reader fairly writes...
March 23, 2014
Once or twice (or maybe three or four or five times) in recent weeks, we...
March 22, 2014
Imagine that you are caught in the middle of the following puzzle. You are a...
March 22, 2014
Funny, isn't it? So many people recoiled in horror at the judgmentalism of the Rev....
March 21, 2014
In a 2006 column about my grandparents, I reflected on my rural upbringing: I close...
March 21, 2014
What is legal is not always moral, a German court observed this past week, holding...
March 21, 2014
Young Republicans: so stylish and libertarian. So free of cares, except perhaps for weed and...
March 20, 2014
Anyone who has worked on the religion beat for more than, well, a week knows...
March 20, 2014
The issue of women's roles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has...
March 20, 2014
Save for Mitt Romney, no one -- in my opinion, at least -- appears likely...
March 19, 2014
Bad journalism makes for good GetReligion posts. See "'Fred Phelps has been excommunicated' and other...
March 19, 2014
At this point, I have just about decided that the editors of The Baltimore Sun...
March 19, 2014
At this point, it's pretty clear that coverage of the demise of the Rev. Fred...
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