Why didn’t Catholic bishops call Biden out by name?
I’m on the road right now, in Montana, and haven’t had a chance to catch Saturday Night Live yet but apparently in the comedy show’s skit on the Vice Presidential debate, the Joe Biden character said:...
View ArticleJeers, not cheers, for latest cheerleader story
Ready? OK! In the midst of the Religion Newswriters Association annual meeting earlier this month, I did a quick, positive review of a New York Times story on a legal clash over Kountze, Texas, high...
View ArticleCatholic bishops’ not-so-partisan partisan crusade
The Washington Post ran a piece from Religion News Service with the headline: Catholic bishops make last-minute pitch for Romney Considering that the bishops didn’t even name Vice President Joe Biden...
View ArticleTough to understand Tufts evangelicals
The Boston Globe reported last week on an evangelical student group at Tufts University facing the potential loss of its funding: In a collision between religious freedom and nondiscrimination codes,...
View ArticleGot news? Judge ‘mocks’ Obama’s religious-liberty move
The most control the media have in the news process is determining what stories get hyped and which get hidden, which get a ton of coverage and which get downplayed. A week or so ago, I read on the...
View Article2012 in review: Contraception vs. religious freedom
I posted last week on the Top 10 religion stories of 2012, as chosen by the Religion Newswriters Association. Readers who responded to the RNA’s list did not seem to disagree with the No. 1 story so...
View ArticleSydney Morning Herald has a problem with religious freedom
It is only two weeks into the new year, but I believe we may have a winner in the worst newspaper article of 2013 contest. A Sydney Morning Herald story entitled “Anti-gay rights to stay” is so awful,...
View ArticleSo, what do Southern Baptists have to do to get some ink?
A couple of years ago the Southern Baptist Convention explored the option of changing their name to better reflect the national and international nature of the denomination. I thought at the time that...
View ArticleWPost: Virginia law highlights stupidity of home-schooling
This is the headline that ran on a 2,500-word Washington Post story Sunday: Student’s home-schooling highlights debate over Va. religious-exemption law But this headline would have described the Post’s...
View ArticleA front-page puff piece on same-sex marriage
The Sacramento Bee published this breaking news on its front page this week: Gays are not guaranteed the right to wed in church Who knew? I vaguely recall some mention of freedom of religion in the...
View ArticlePod people: Local vs. national press on religious liberty
Proposed religious liberty exemptions for wedding vendors — such as bakers, florists and photographers — opposed to same-sex marriage keep making headlines. Here at GetReligion, we’ve highlighted...
View ArticleTo the barricades! It’s the religious conservatives again!
The reliably liberal New York Times has waved yet another red flag, thinly masked as in-depth news, on the traditional-religious bigots who disagree with its morality — even daring to pass contrary...
View ArticleAP’s one-sided report on teaching Bible in public schools
Gotcha! That’s the distinct tone of an Associated Press story out this week (just three weeks behind Religion News Service) on a new Bible elective approved by an Oklahoma school district. But does...
View ArticleBig news report card: Hobby Lobby and contraceptives
One of the big misconceptions about the Hobby Lobby case (with apologies to Conestoga Wood Specialties) is that the Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts retailer refuses to pay for employees’...
View ArticleA chilling account of Boko Haram targeting Christians
They killed her husband, burned her church and took away her name. Boko Haram in Nigeria. http://t.co/rJsiCNbV1B http://t.co/ZTHSA9z1UK — Robyn Dixon (@latimesdixon) July 8, 2014 Last month, I...
View Article‘Sin’ gets scare quote treatment in Portland, Ore.
Be very, very afraid, Portland! The Christians are invading Oregon — and they want to tell your children about Jesus. That’s scary stuff, I know. But somehow I missed — until now — the newspaper story...
View ArticleCatholic bishops’ not-so-partisan partisan crusade
The Washington Post ran a piece from Religion News Service with the headline: Catholic bishops make last-minute pitch for Romney Considering that the bishops didn’t even name Vice President Joe Biden...
View ArticleTough to understand Tufts evangelicals
The Boston Globe reported last week on an evangelical student group at Tufts University facing the potential loss of its funding: In a collision between religious freedom and nondiscrimination codes,...
View ArticleGot news? Judge ‘mocks’ Obama’s religious-liberty move
The most control the media have in the news process is determining what stories get hyped and which get hidden, which get a ton of coverage and which get downplayed. A week or so ago, I read on the...
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