What we have here is a totally predictable story, to an almost stunning degree. It’s almost a non-story, from the get go.
Shocker! Liberal clergy back gay rites! (updated)
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Galileo meets the Mayan apocalypse
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WWROD: Which denominations do what well?
So, GetReligion readers, have you submitted a religion-rooted question yet to veteran scribe Richard Ostling, over at his new weblog? That would be the one called “Religion Q&A: The Ridgewood Religion Guy answers your questions” (click here for some background).
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Ghost of Notre Dame's modern-day 'Rudy'
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Got news? White House vs. Little Sisters of the Poor
From coast to coast, the lawyers of religious groups and charities can almost quote the following legal language by heart. This is, of course, linked to the strange — from a church-state separation perspective — Health and Human Services mandate that attempts to create two different levels of religious liberty in the United States.
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Fox forces the Mass into Christmas
A friend put this picture up on Google+ (so I guess that answers the question of whether people still use Google+!). Around the same time, a reader submitted this story from Fox News, headlined:
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Pod people: Don't mention the war!
“Donât mention the war!â is the catch phrase from âThe Germansâ episode of the British television series Fawlty Towers. I thought of this episode and John Cleese when I prepared a story for GetReligion on the New York Times‘ and Los Angeles Times’ reporting on the Bundestag’s vote to protect the religious freedom of Jews and Muslims by forbidding courts to ban the circumcision of infant boys.
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Christmas carol wars on the DC Metro -- not
Anyone who spends much time on subways and other forms of mass transit knows that a whole lot of religious stuff goes on while people are moving from home to work. I’m not just talking about the people with their sports pages and copies of 50 shades of hades or whatever.
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The nones on the bus
This week the Pew folks came out with a large Global Religious Landscape report. It’s a super fun read for anybody who follows this site. Yesterday, we looked at one story that came up short when discussing the significance of Christianity’s dominance. In the comments to that piece, reader MJBubba wrote:
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