Remember that strange story a few years back about all of those Brits who wanted to write “Jedi knight” or something like that in the official census form slot for “religion”?
Old gods on rise in Greece?
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Survey says: It's all good!
Charles Blow fills a niche so precise that The New York Times is one of the few daily papers that could maintain it in these lean times. He is the Times‘ “visual Op-Ed columnist,” which means that Blow, drawing on his long experience as graphics editor and then graphics director for the Times, supplements his concise remarks with graphics.
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Merry Christmas! (This is not a joke)
While my recent thread about rites on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day rolls on and on, please allow me to raise another seasonal issue that is dear to my heart.
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Putting the Mass in Christmas
During the past 25 years or so, I have written more than my share of mainstream news stories and columns about religious seasons.
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Hey, New York Times! "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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Tony Blair, double agent?
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Memory eternal, Patriarch Aleksy II
Only days after the fall of the Soviet Union, I had a chance to talk with several veteran Russian Orthodox priests about the future of their church in Russia.
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Metropolitan Obama?
Every now and then, it is important to offer GetReligion readers who are not journalists a glimpse inside the workings of daily journalism.
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Orthodox regional reporting
What do you know! One of the newspapers in a region linked to the story of the monk formerly known as Jonah Paffhausen has noticed that he was raised — 12 whole days after being consecrated as an auxiliary bishop in Dallas — to the position of metropolitan (think archbishop) of the scandal-torn Orthodox Church in America.
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