After Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s election in 2010, questions emerged concerning the religious background of the Tea Party favorite with Cuban-American roots.
Catholic? Baptist? Mormon? Meet Marco Rubio
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Zombie Muhammad and the First Amendment
We’ve had a few readers send in links to coverage of a First Amendment-related case out of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It’s a sad story that goes back to a 2011 Halloween parade. A small group of atheists marched in the parade, dressed as a Zombie Pope and a Zombie Muhammad. This outraged one Muslim father who attended the parade with his wife and son.
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The Curate's Egg: Political Language in Religion Reporting
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When doctors die
Thanks to technological advances, we have all sorts of ways to try to bring life into this world and to prevent life from going out of this world.
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One way to look at online mourning in America
Every now and then, GetReligion readers send us the URLs for stories that they assume we will dislike — often because of the actual religious content of these pieces.
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An odd piece of outstanding journalism
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Debunking 'the Amish Bernie Madoff' theme
You probably won’t find many themes of forgiveness in your average ponzi scheme story. But when you’re writing about âthe Amish Bernie Madoff,â it’s likely too difficult to ignore them.
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Another Episcopal cathedral shoe drops
It is the year 2012, do you know where your local Episcopal cathedral is? Are you sure that there still is one?
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AP discovers a new faith -- "Southern Baptism"
On one level, the error that I am about to spotlight is so silly that it could just be a typo or a stupid (click here for classics) error — like someone calling Sen. Rick Santorum an evangelicalist or reporting that some liturgical committee has decided to modernize the Episcopalian prayerbook, again.
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