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• Playing The Sun religion game

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Web Tech, Godbeat, Journalism, Religion

  The newspaper that lands in my front yard — that would be the Baltimore Sun — has just completed a major overhaul of its online edition. Click here if you want to see its guide to this project. This means we have another chance to play an online game that we have been playing since the earliest days of GetReligion, a game that we could

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• Reader reactions to Lobdell’s confessions

  Published: July 25, 2007, 2:46 pm

  Tags: Godbeat, Journalism, Religion

  I’ve been gone for nearly a week to the rain-drenched Texas Hill Country and, during that time, I received all kinds of email about that remarkable page-one essay by William Lobdell of the Los Angeles Times about how his work on the religion beat knocked the foundations out from under his Christian faith. Click here for the quick post I

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• Influential? We GetReligionistas?

  Published: July 20, 2007, 11:55 am

  Tags: Godbeat, World, Announcements

  Why thank you. Jolly good (and other silly things that Americans think we are supposed to say to sound a wee bit British). Texans would say, “Thanks a bunch.” It seems that the Faith Central blog at The Times — led by writer and broadcaster Libby Purves — has decided to create a handy collection of, well, here is what the

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• Here some stand

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:53 pm

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Godbeat, Anglicanism, Catholicism, Evangelicals, Judaism, Islam, Sex, Mainline

  “Stories like this annoy me,” a Lutheran pastor wrote when he notified us of the following Chicago Sun-Times piece. Written by veteran religion reporter Susan Hogan/Albach, it’s about how the Metropolitan Chicago bishop-elect of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America views his denomination’s celibacy requirement for gay

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• Who can argue with the gay bishop?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:56 pm

  Tags: Social Issues, Godbeat, Anglicanism, World, Sex

  of London story by veteran Godbeat reporter Ruth Gledhill, who opens with this crash-boom-bang opening: The openly gay bishop whose ordination sparked the crisis in the Anglican Communion has claimed the Church of England would be close to shutting down if it was forced to manage without its gay clergy. The Bishop of New Hampshire in the US,

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• Devotion to God, then the game

  Published: July 28, 2007, 6:34 pm

  Tags: Godbeat, Sports, Catholicism

  Michael Kress is the assistant managing editor at Beliefnet and a freelance religion reporter. I’ve come across a few of his articles recently as he’s published in Slate, Dallas Morning News and other sites. He had a really straightforward but interesting Q&A with Mike Piazza in the Seattle Times this week. Piazza is the (boo,

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• A non-haunted story on water-witching

  Published: July 29, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Godbeat, People, Science

  The entire Mid-Atlantic region is in a terrible drought right now, although we got a few showers this weekend. It was most strange to visit Central Texas a week ago and see the fields a deep, rich green, while Maryland looks parched and dry. Anyway, when a weather story rolls on and on like this, newspapers almost always start searching for

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• Please define “evangelical” (yet again)

  Published: July 30, 2007, 10:18 am

  Tags: Godbeat, Academia, Creeping Fundamentalism, World, Evangelicals, Judaism

  If you type the word “evangelicals” into Google Images, the art attached to the top of this post is the very first thing that turns up. This tells us quite a bit about how most Americans now define the vague word “evangelical.” Even Wikipedia is better than this strictly political image and — horrors — you can

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• How great thou art

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:57 am

  Tags: Godbeat, Academia, Pop Culture, Evangelicals

  When I first read this Eric Gorski piece on evangelicals and art last week, I thought it was another home run for one of my favorite religion reporters. But I’m always praising Gorski — and Stephanie Simon of the Los Angeles Times, among others — and I thought it might be best to let the piece pass. But so many GetReligion

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• Here she is, Miss Female Catholic Priest

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:23 am

  Tags: Godbeat, Catholicism

  Today I was crowned Miss America. Except by “Miss America” I mean my husband said I was “one foxy-looking pregnant lady.” It’s a shame that pageant organizers do not recognize this triumph and bestow on me the crown I so rightfully deserve. I joke, but check out the lede to a story from Portland’s KOIN News:

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• Here she is, Miss Female Catholic Priest

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:23 am

  Tags: Godbeat, Catholicism

  Today I was crowned Miss America. Except by “Miss America” I mean my husband said I was “one foxy-looking pregnant lady.” It’s a shame that pageant organizers do not recognize this triumph and bestow on me the crown I so rightfully deserve. I joke, but check out the lede to a story from Portland’s KOIN News:

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• How great thou art

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:57 am

  Tags: Godbeat, Academia, Pop Culture, Evangelicals

  When I first read Eric Gorski’s piece on evangelicals and art last week, I thought it was another home run for one of my favorite religion reporters. But I’m always praising Gorski — and Stephanie Simon of the Los Angeles Times, among others — and I thought it might be best to let the piece pass. But so many GetReligion

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• Please define ‘evangelical’ (yet again)

  Published: July 30, 2007, 10:18 am

  Tags: Godbeat, Academia, Creeping Fundamentalism, World, Evangelicals, Judaism

  If you type the word “evangelicals” into Google Images, the art attached to the top of this post is the very first thing that turns up. This tells us quite a bit about how most Americans now define the vague word “evangelical.” Even Wikipedia is better than this strictly political image and — horrors — you can

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• A non-haunted story on water-witching

  Published: July 29, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Godbeat, Creeping Fundamentalism, People, Science

  The entire Mid-Atlantic region is in a terrible drought right now, although we got a few showers this weekend. It was most strange to visit Central Texas a week ago and see the fields a deep, rich green, while Maryland looks parched and dry. Anyway, when a weather story rolls on and on like this, newspapers almost always start searching for

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• Devotion to God, then the game

  Published: July 28, 2007, 6:34 pm

  Tags: Godbeat, Sports, Catholicism

  Michael Kress is the assistant managing editor at Beliefnet and a freelance religion reporter. I’ve come across a few of his articles recently as he’s published in Slate, The Dallas Morning News and other sites. He had a really straightforward and interesting Q&A with Mike Piazza in The Seattle Times this week. Piazza is the (boo,

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