Well, here’s a pair of sentences that I did not expect to write anytime soon.
Tim Tebow goes to Nineveh or Babylon or ...
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Is Oikos school Catholic? Fundamentalist? Neither?
A horrible shooting happened yesterday at a small Christian vocational school in Oakland, California. A former student went on a shooting rampage, killing seven people and injuring three.
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Shocker? 19 percent say media "friendly" to religion
It’s always interesting to see what journalists zone in on when a new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life comes out.
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Define "Christian;" give three examples
Anyone who read GetReligion for more than a week or two knows that we are not big fans of religious labels.
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Reporting the hate in hate crimes
Last week I mentioned that I’ve become mildly obsessed with the murder of Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi-American woman who was beaten so brutally at her home in El Cajon, California, that she later died.
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For BBC czar, race always trumps religion
It’s the question that gets asked whenever an alleged comedian on HBO goes a bit nuts on the subject of religious believers.
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Fighting the fatwa
One of our most visited pages last month was a post about the lack of coverage of comments made by Saudi Arabia’s top religious official (Got news? Destroy all churches!). As I mentioned in that post, Arabian Business News reported:
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The revival that went bust
Can you imagine what kind of coverage a major mainstream news organization might give a faith-healing church that took in millions of dollars that seem to have vanished?
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Secular fall of a non-guru yoga guru
The Washington Post Style gods recently ran a long, long, long news feature that I am absolutely sure will be of interest to GetReligion readers. It contains all kinds of religious stuff — good and evil, sin and calls for repentance, claims of spiritual transcendence and healing.
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