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Stenography vs. reporting: 'Bias' in the Lone Star State

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Just the other night, I was watching an old episode of “The West Wing,” one of my all-time favorite television series.


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Digging for news in (some) inauguration rites and wrongs

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Few paid much attention when a well-known liberal Episcopal priest, the Rev. Luis Leon, delivered the invocation at the 2005 inauguration of President George W. Bush, a somewhat traditional United Methodist.


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The ghost of abortion in adoption stories

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Like many Americans, I’ve been developing an interest in Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers. I came across a blog post that asserted something provocative:


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At Obama inauguration, not all religion is biblical

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Yesterday was a big day for the country, with the second inauguration of President Barack H. Obama. The president gave a very important speech and the media are, excitedly, poring over it. But how were the day’s religion angles covered?


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So what did Cardinal Mahony believe, really?

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The news out of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is painful and stunning, especially for those who have not been closely following the fine details of the Catholic clergy sexual-abuse scandals over the past quarter century or more.


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Channel 4 keeps it all in the Anglican family

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January has been a wonderful month for lovers of Anglican ecclesiastical drama. The resignation of Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury at year’s end should have led to a few month’s peace and quiet for the Church of England and the wider Anglican world. I had even thought of taking a vacation this month as little of substance appeared on the radar as of late December.


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BBC misses religious-liberty ghost in St. Francisville, La.

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Through the years, your GetReligionistas have gone out of our way to note that it’s a good thing, every now and then, for journalists to end up on the other side of a reporter’s notebook or camera lens.


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