Hey Washington Post: There’s only one (gay) Islam? Really?
Anyone who has been paying attention to debates about the future of the Boy Scouts of America knows that, when it comes to issues linked to homosexuality, there is no one “religious” perspective that...
View ArticleWPost Style manages to print an interesting EWTN story
Whenever your GetReligionistas pick on the Style gods at The Washington Post — primarily with our pronouncements that alternative points of view are good things in features about controversial issues...
View ArticleOn Tim Tebow, ‘spirituality’ and stating the obvious
Here we go again, sort of. Now, I live in the land of purple and black here in Maryland, home of the World Champion Baltimore Ravens (it’s still fun to say that), where if anyone asked the local...
View ArticleDefine ‘practicing Catholic;’ report the Virginia options
Surely it will come as little surprise to faithful readers of this hear blog to learn that your GetReligionistas are not fond of the term “devout Catholic,” a foggy, meaningless label that is used way...
View ArticleA dynamic, hip, inked leader offers salvation to the left
It says a lot, in this financially tight age in American newsrooms, when editors put a reporter on an airplane and send her halfway across the nation to hear somebody preach. In other words, the team...
View ArticleWPost listens to half of the great United Methodist debate
After years of covering the sexuality wars in America’s oldline denominations, I am well aware that different camps within these churches interpret the rites and vows of their traditions in different...
View ArticleClash of absolute truths in WPost coverage of Schaefer trial
And this just in. The editorial team of The Washington Post has published a direct quotation from an outside voice, a figure of authority, who supports the doctrines and disciplines of the United...
View ArticlePod people: Russell Wilson, ghosts, 10 years of GetReligion
Let’s do this one backwards. In a perfect world, the easy way to do mainstream news criticism is to find a really bad example of a problem and then, a few days later, find an example of an equally...
View ArticleObama erases the ‘scare quotes’ around religious freedom?
In recent years, there has been quite a bit of discussion at GetReligion about the ways in which mainstream journalists use “scare quotes” as a way to suggest which causes they see as questionable, as...
View Article10 years of GetReligion: State of the Godbeat 2014
By Julia Duin Ever since the Washington Post dumped its massive On Faith blog, there’s been more chatter about where the religion beat is headed these days. True, On Faith has found a new — and more...
View ArticleThe sad story of a priest, a partial-penitent and the press
At this point, it is no longer unusual to read a news story about an issue linked to homosexuality that yanks the pope’s famous “Who am I to judge?” quote out of context. Alas, this is now business as...
View ArticleDear journalists: When in Ukraine, try talking to Ukrainians
Hearing the confessions of soldiers shortly before they go into combat is one of the most important and symbolic duties performed by priests who serve as military chaplains representing Christianity’s...
View ArticleUniverse gives birth to itself, transformed by unknown ‘force’
This is a challenging day to be a journalist on the science beat, if the goal is to avoid ultimate questions. I am happy to report that The Washington Post — to my surprise, quite frankly — didn’t try...
View ArticlePod people: To the end of the secular universe and beyond!
Imagine that you are caught in the middle of the following puzzle. You are a journalist who works for a mainstream newspaper, broadcast network or wire service. According to decades of tradition about...
View ArticleIt’s not hard! WPost offers some crucial Boko Haram facts
In the past month or two, I have been really, really hard on the editors at The New York Times because of their mysterious — that word is carefully chosen — blind spot when it comes to basic,...
View ArticleSpecific notes of hope, along with the horrors in Nigeria
I don’t want to turn this into a trend, or anything. Heaven forbid. However, the honorable Bobby Ross Jr. just produced a positive post (horrors) about a news report on Nigeria in The Wall Street...
View ArticleTo be ‘killed, crucified or have their hands and feet cut off’…
At this point in the growing Iraq crisis, I think it is safe to say that European journalists, in comparison with their American counterparts, are much more comfortable putting the words “caliphate,”...
View ArticleClash of absolute truths in WPost coverage of Schaefer trial
And this just in. The editorial team of The Washington Post has published a direct quotation from an outside voice, a figure of authority, who supports the doctrines and disciplines of the United...
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