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Farewell, after 20 years: Why we did what we did
If you know anything about world religions, then you know that Easter is a big deal in Christianity. In Eastern Orthodox churches, the Big Idea is stated this way, over and over, in rites for Pas...
https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2023/12/29/why-we-did-what-we-did
Peter J. Boyer: Charged with covering faith for The New Yorker, I found GetReligion
It was a piece of great luck for me that the “publish” button was clicked on the new GetReligion blog in 2004 just before I received the unlikeliest assignment of my career — the faith beat...
Salute from Will Norton at Ole Miss: Religion plays a crucial role in news -- around the world
During World War II, when I was a young boy in the Belgian Congo, Dad would turn on the large radio console and listen to BBC News. Years later, he explained to me that Charles DeGaulle, a French...
Closing one door: Whither 21st Century religion and our beleaguered news media?
The Religion Guy wishes to underscore increasingly obvious aspects of 21st Century America: One: Religion is in crisis. Two: The media are in crisis. Three: Media treatment of religion is in...
Thomas A. Szyszkiewicz: A farewell to GetReligion from Catholic radio
Twenty years is a good run. Unfortunately, GetReligion should run for at least another 20 more years because the need is still there, and under the circumstances that Terry Mattingly has describe...
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput: The religion beat is where 'our defining freedoms meet'
A free press is part of the American identity. It’s also one of our essential institutions. A responsible press and a faith shaped by the God of charity and justice share two things in common: ...
Julia Duin: It's been a long road and we've reached the end of our GetReligion journey
It’s been almost nine years since that day in February 2015 when Terry called me in Alaska to ask if I’d join the GetReligion team starting March 1. (We already had a reminder of the Mattingl...
A salute from north of the border, care of CBC Radio veteran Anna-Liza Kozma
“What do you mean by blog?” I asked my friend Terry Mattingly nearly a quarter of a century ago in Jerusalem as we attended a conference on religion in the news, which took place just before ...
Farewell from Moscow: This American ran into GetReligion online and never stopped reading
To be honest, I still can’t remember how I found GetReligion. Thanks to Google, I was able to find what I’m guessing what my first GetReligion shout-out — it was a post by Julia Duin some s...
Kenneth Woodward: GetReligion, in so many ways, kept offering on-the-job training
I never went to journalism school or took a journalism course. I learned on the job under a superb editor who never finished college. Reading Terry Mattingly and his crew of smart contributors at...
Doug LeBlanc bids farewell: I enjoyed my time in a journalism niche within a niche within a niche
Terry Mattingly had been my faithful friend of about a decade when he invited me to help him launch GetReligion.org at the start of February, 2004. The timing was right. I had reached a point of ...
Will the Catholic Church allow married priests in the western Latin rite? Should It?
QUESTION: Will the Catholic Church allow married priests in the Western Latin rite? Should It? THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: The new year began with the surprise revival of this perennial issue by...
Crossroads: Failing to 'get' religion helped create schism between readers and newsrooms
Questions. Yes, we have some final (sort of) questions about journalism and religion news. One one level, this week’s “Crossroads” podcast (CLICK HERE to tune that in ) focused on all those...
Why not cover these stories? GetReligion kept asking about attacks on Catholic churches
There have been many big stories on the Catholic beat since I started contributing to GetReligion in November 2018. Over the last five years, I have written about Catholicism as it related to doc...
If a NFL coaching legend quotes scripture in a press conference, does it make a sound?
One more time. For years, Bobby Ross, Jr., and I have written lots of posts about religion-shaped holes in mainstream sports coverage. Apparently, very few GetReligion readers were interested in ...
What in the world is happening to evangelicalism in 21st Century America?
In nine-plus years of these weekly Memos, the Religion Guy has sometimes complained that the news media pay too little attention to e.g. the “Mainline” Protestant denominations or to white Ca...
Concerning Bob Smietana's kind RNS look at GetReligion (with a few friendly quibbles)
May I have a brief moment, please, to ask a question to my fellow religion-beat reporters? I have a style question for you folks. Has the ever-evolving Associated Press stylebook addressed the is...
Plugged-In: Amid challenges for pro-lifers, thousands still elected to March For Life
A new report covered by Christianity Today’s Jayson Casper highlights “the 50 countries where it’s hardest to follow Jesus in 2024.” Last week’s Plug-in focused on Iowa evangelicals and...
Can 'orthodox' colleges and universities survive clashes with the Sexual Revolution?
As America's second-oldest Lutheran college, Roanoke College in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley proclaims that it is "never sectarian" in outlook, while maintaining that "critical thinking and spiri...
Thinking about 'God Made Trump,' with 'Hemingway -- Mark Hemingway'
Editor’s note: While preparing for this week’s podcast (“Carefully entering the hall of mirrors created by the 'God Made Trump' video”) I emailed a former GetReligionista who is way smart...