The New York Times is shocked, shocked to hear Pope Francis say there is a gay lobby at the Vatican.
Hey! It's journalists mangling scripture day! (UPDATED)
David Brooks wrote a very Brooksian column for today’s New York Times about how our culture was more dynamic when there were competing status hierarchies and how our current situation of one hierarchy means that the successful are less haunted by their own status and the less successful have nowhere to hide.
Got news? Is a global 'war on Christianity' newsworthy?
Would it be newsworthy if a U.S. Senator claimed in a public address that American taxpayer dollars are being used in a war against Christian believers in — to pick one key region — the Holy Land?
Religion News Service blames Catholics for Anglican ecumenical ills
Opinion presented as fact dominates several stories in the run up to today’s meeting of Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
Child euthanasia in the European press
A front page story in the Monday edition of the Brussels’s daily De Morgen on a Belgian Senate committee’s deliberations on whether the country’s laws should be extended to permit the euthanasia of children and dementia patients has created a buzz on pro-life and political websites.
Holy Scouts! Southern Baptists didn't do what we expected!
So, when push came to shove, what did the Southern Baptist Convention decide to do about the Boy Scouts of America?
Fundamental misunderstandings of 'fundamentalism'
When it comes to religious terms, you would be hard pressed to find a word more misapplied by the media than “fundamentalist.”
Secular and religious symbols lost in many Turkey reports
I have been reading the mainstream coverage of the events unfolding in Turkey from the get go, in large part because of my interest — after two visits to Istanbul — in the nation’s complex blend of European secularism (think France) and a variety of approaches to Islam. In the midst of all that, religious minorities have not fared well at all, including the tiny remnant of Eastern Orthodox believers who huddle in what was once the New Rome.
Calvinism debate shakes up Southern Baptist Convention
Former GetReligionista and current Religion News Service national correspondent Sarah Pulliam Bailey developed a short quiz to gauge readers’ knowledge:
