For several days now, I have been very curious about an item related to mainstream journalism work on the religion-news beat.
Intrigue in the wide, wide world of the religion-news beat?
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Spotting the sacred ghost in the era of iWeddings
First of all, let me stress that I know that there are plenty of weddings that are completely secular or, well, they should have been completely secular. You know what I mean?
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WWROD? Another stab at defining the word 'evangelical'
Long ago, I asked the Rev. Billy Graham a question that I really thought he, of all people, would be able to answer.
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Joe Carter: From GetReligion reader to scribe
Having been a reader and fan of GetReligion, Iâm thrilled and honored to be joining as a contributor. Although Iâve been reading this site since its inception in 2004, my interest in the intersection of religion and journalism extends back a long, long time — maybe even back to the dark era before Terry Mattingly had a syndicated column.
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Breaking the silence on abortion doctors like Kermit Gosnell
Sometimes other people do such fine GetReligion-esque media criticism that we just like to point at it and then walk away.
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WWROD: So is atheism a belief system or not?
It’s time for another GetReligion visit to the online domain of the Ridgewood Religion Guy, as in the weblog of former Time and Associated Press religion-beat maestro Richard Ostling.
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Render unto Google the things which are Google's ...
First of all, let me state right up front that it is hard to do a news critique of a graphic device. I concede that point.
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So what was Pope Francis up to on Holy Thursday?
So, this pope vs. pope theme has been building, in mainstream coverage, during the amazing early days of Pope Francis. Have you noticed? One of the world’s top reporters on all things Catholic has noticed, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
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Shroud of Turin: Let's include the basic facts, please
Readers who have been following GetReligion for some time, or even reading my Scripps Howard News Service columns, may remember that I have been keeping up with the debates about the Shroud of Turin since the mid-1980s, when I worked at The Rocky Mountain News in Denver. That meant that I wasn’t that far from some of the key American players in this lively field, both in Colorado Springs, Colo., and in Los Alamos, N.M.
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