Many Christians will back to eating chocolate, hopping back on Facebook and, yes, eating meat with Easter upon us today.
Brats go up against Good Friday on Opening Day
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A Roman Easter Rashomon
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Tim Tebow's plans for Easter 'mass'
That Tim Tebow guy is something else. You would think with all of the New York City media following him around these days, that it would be hard for him to sneak off and make some kind of radical change in his religious life.
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Good (opening) Friday in The Yard
As the Divine Mrs. M.Z. has already noted, this is a red-letter news day on the religion-and-baseball beat. This is especially true here in Baltimore, where our city’s beleaguered Orioles fans are marking the 20th anniversary of the opening of Orioles Park at Camden Yards, the park that in many ways saved baseball from suburbia.
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Holy days and baseball
A reader sent in this story about Rick Santorum taking a mysterious four day break from his presidential campaign. There was a reference by Santorum himself to a “holiday weekend,” the story didn’t explore whether maybe the break had anything to do with the Triduum.
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Is Oikos school Catholic? Fundamentalist? Neither?
A horrible shooting happened yesterday at a small Christian vocational school in Oakland, California. A former student went on a shooting rampage, killing seven people and injuring three.
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Define "Christian;" give three examples
Anyone who read GetReligion for more than a week or two knows that we are not big fans of religious labels.
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For BBC czar, race always trumps religion
It’s the question that gets asked whenever an alleged comedian on HBO goes a bit nuts on the subject of religious believers.
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Fighting the fatwa
One of our most visited pages last month was a post about the lack of coverage of comments made by Saudi Arabia’s top religious official (Got news? Destroy all churches!). As I mentioned in that post, Arabian Business News reported:
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