God's role in the super bowl

GetReligion contributor Tamie Ross discusses media coverage of God's role in the Super Bowl, statements made by an 80's sitcom star about wives submitting to husbands and a brain dead teenager in Oakland.

The top religion stories of 2013

Time magazine story on gay rights in India

Texas' Merry Christmas law and a story from the New York Times about Christian adoption

The trial of a United Methodist pastor who performed his son's same-sex wedding ceremony

The New York Times on religious liberty and the Affordable Care Act and a Religion News Service story about C.S. Lewis

Death cafes and a young black woman protecting a white supremacist from anti-Ku-Klux Klan protesters

The royal baptism

Washington Post story about John Shelby Spong and a French wire service story about an exorcism trial in a France

Mormonism and homosexuality and a Wall Street Journal story about businesses and gay weddings

Christian persecution in Pakistan, Kenya, Syria and Egypt

Religion angles and the Navy Yard shooting rampage

Daily Record story about the involvement of Churches of Christ members at a primary school in Scotland

The president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY and a "Chicago Tribune" story about women priests

Islam and the persecution of Christians in Egypt

Dartmouth College's Reversal of an African Bishop's Appointment

The 2013 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Virginia's religious exemption law, a heart surgeon who prays with patients and Agentina's slum priests

Pope Francis' comments about gay priests

Media coverage of Papal trips