Let’s face it: Some parents give their babies weird names.
A Messiah was born ... in Tennessee
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The Sun talks (just talk, no facts) about an Episcopal hero
I didn’t know much about the Rt. Rev. David Leighton — the 11th diocese of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland — before reading the recent Baltimore Sun news article about the funeral rites held in his honor.
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A newspaper gets burned in reporting on Anglican Africa
The Christian Science Monitor has been tripped up by the African press and the internet, reporting as breaking news an item almost two years old.
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Married 60 times before age 18 in Egypt
The Washington Post had a religion news blog item last week headlined, horrifyingly, “âSome girls have been married 60 times by the time they turn 18′.”
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The missing faith angle in the Catholic charity story
Having grown up in a large Catholic family that volunteered at her church, a former tech executive leaves her job at a large philanthropic foundation to take a job at a small charity founded by a Jesuit priest and named after a Biblical character.
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Tim Tebow meets the fans in liberal New England
Man, that Tim Tebow is way more popular than he should be, in light of his third-string quarterback status. Why is that?
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Pod people: A little GetEducation for GetReligion
In the 1990s, before I became a religion writer, I covered education for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City’s daily newspaper. I wrote numerous stories on the school choice movement, from vouchers to magnet schools to charter schools.
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The New York Times misses battle for Belarus
I would like to draw your attention to a 28 July 2013 piece in the New York Times entitled “Putin in Ukraine to Celebrate a Christian Anniversary”. The article reports on the interplay of religion, politics and culture in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Yet the mention of religion in a story does not necessarily mean the reporter “gets religion.”
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Following up on the Sikh temple shooting
I’m a sucker for a good follow-up story and the Associated Press hit this one out of the park. It’s a follow-up to the horrible shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin last year. Religious perspectives are woven throughout the piece, including in this lede:
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