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GetReligion is a national and global journalism site focusing on how the mainstream press covers religion news in politics, entertainment, business and sports.

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The past is dead? Time for news analysis of America's scrambled Protestant marketplace getreligion.org/getreligion/…
The past is dead? Time for news analysis of America's scrambled Protestant marketplace — GetReligion

The past is dead? Time for news analysis of America's scrambled Protestant marketplace — GetReligion

Starting with a band of Anglicans landing at Jamestown in 1607 and then Pilgrim dissenters at Plymouth in 1620, various forms of Protestantism collectively dominated what became the United States....

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Yes, what about that meeting between Pope Francis and exiled Russian Orthodox leader? getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Yes, what about that meeting between Pope Francis and an exiled Russian Orthodox leader? — GetRel...

Yes, what about that meeting between Pope Francis and an exiled Russian Orthodox leader? — GetRel...

So, my gentle readers, please allow me to flash back to a recent news story that I intended to discuss, but travel got in the way. This was a story that may or may not have been important, but we...

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View from Rome: Italian press aims to inform, but loves tabloid-style Vatican scandals getreligion.org/getreligion/…
View from Rome: Italian press aims to inform, but loves tabloid-style Vatican scandals — GetReligion

View from Rome: Italian press aims to inform, but loves tabloid-style Vatican scandals — GetReligion

There’s nothing like walking down Via della Conciliazione in Rome. It’s a very long street, bustling with cars and tourists, that feeds into St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. It’s a reminder of how...

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Another Catholic order fades away: AP offers a familiar story, from only one point of view getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Another Catholic order fades away: AP offers a familiar story, from only one point of view —...

Another Catholic order fades away: AP offers a familiar story, from only one point of view —...

The sad Catholic story format has become rather standardized by now. First, you need a declining college, seminary, parish, local school or a religious order. Then (2) you add the details of the...

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Plug-In: Another week, more death in U.S. spiritual crisis with guns and mental health getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Plug-In: Another week, more death in U.S. spiritual crisis with guns and mental health — GetReligion

Plug-In: Another week, more death in U.S. spiritual crisis with guns and mental health — GetReligion

ALLEN, Texas — Nine killed, counting the gunman. Seven wounded. Hundreds traumatized by what they experienced while simply trying to shop or eat and enjoy a leisurely weekend afternoon. In other...

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Global South Anglicans are convinced that it's time to look forward (Part II) getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Global South Anglicans are convinced that it's time to look forward (Part II) — GetReligion

Global South Anglicans are convinced that it's time to look forward (Part II) — GetReligion

Want to know how to cause a church split? The deepest fault lines -- sex, money and pride -- have been obvious for centuries, said Archbishop Kanishka Raffel of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney,...

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Thinking about post-Christian Europe? The Pillar looks for God in the Netherlands getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Thinking about post-Christian Europe? The Pillar looks for God in the Netherlands — GetReligion

Thinking about post-Christian Europe? The Pillar looks for God in the Netherlands — GetReligion

There is this old saying that when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold — or something like that. That’s true, these days, when it comes to many issues in economics and politics. But I have always...

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Podcast: What's going on with Southern Baptist decline? Count the news hooks ... getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Podcast: What's going on with Southern Baptist decline? Count the news hooks ... — GetReligion

Podcast: What's going on with Southern Baptist decline? Count the news hooks ... — GetReligion

Back in the early 1980s, the Southern Baptist Convention was enduring the crucial years of its civil war over — here’s the term headline writers hated — “biblical inerrancy.” I was at the Charlotte...

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Latest angle in covering 'The Chosen?' It's a journalism thing -- follow the money getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Latest angle in covering 'The Chosen?' It's a journalism thing -- follow the money — GetReligion

Latest angle in covering 'The Chosen?' It's a journalism thing -- follow the money — GetReligion

Sometime in 2024, filmmaker Dallas Jenkins will release season 4 of his very successful “The Chosen” series . It’s the first multi-season cable-television series about the life of Jesus Christ. Now,...

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'Cultural Christianity' is fading and that reality is linked to some other newsy trends getreligion.org/getreligion/…
'Cultural Christianity' is fading and that reality is linked to some other newsy trends — GetReli...

'Cultural Christianity' is fading and that reality is linked to some other newsy trends — GetReli...

One of the trends I have been tracking a bit recently is the concept of “cultural Christianity.” There’s really no settled definition of what it means, but I’ve always conceived of it as people who...

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Newsworthy question (again): Does God exist? The latest twist in the perennial debate getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Newsworthy question (again): Does God exist? The latest twist in the perennial debate — GetReligion

Newsworthy question (again): Does God exist? The latest twist in the perennial debate — GetReligion

Early on in the 21st Century -- which turns out to be a thorny era for organized religion -- the “New Atheism” replaced past skeptics’ polite colloquies with fundamentalist-style attacks that...

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Celebrities, monarchs, politicos, clergy and sacramental ghosts in coronation of Charles III getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Celebrities, monarchs, politicos, clergy and sacramental ghosts in coronation of Charles III —...

Celebrities, monarchs, politicos, clergy and sacramental ghosts in coronation of Charles III —...

If you read the main Associated Press report about the coronation of King Charles III then you know, in summary material near the top, that the rites were attended by “celebrities including Judi...

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Plug-In: Coronation Of King Charles III -- looking at faith in a changing Great Britain getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Plug-In: Coronation Of King Charles III -- looking at faith in a changing Great Britain — GetReli...

Plug-In: Coronation Of King Charles III -- looking at faith in a changing Great Britain — GetReli...

Almost eight months ago, Queen Elizabeth II’s death at age 96 ended her remarkable 70 years on the British throne. Now all eyes — billions of them anyway — turned to the coronation of her son, King...

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Global South Anglicans make big effort to start cutting Canterbury ties that bind (Part I) getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Global South Anglicans make big effort to start cutting Canterbury ties that bind (Part I) —...

Global South Anglicans make big effort to start cutting Canterbury ties that bind (Part I) —...

After a half-century of decline, the U.S. Episcopal Church has 1.5 million members, and its average weekly attendance was just above 500,000 before COVID-19 and 300,000 afterwards. After decades of...

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Here is a strange question: Why doesn't the U.S. Census ask questions about religion? getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Here is a strange question: Why doesn't the U.S. Census ask questions about religion? — GetReligion

Here is a strange question: Why doesn't the U.S. Census ask questions about religion? — GetReligion

QUESTION: “Why doesn’t the U.S. Census ask about religion?” THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: Most Americans may never have thought about this, an odd omission considering that religion is such an important...

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Podcast: Religion ghosts in Pornhub's battle with Utah, Louisiana and red-state America? getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Podcast: Religion ghosts in Pornhub's battle with Utah, Louisiana and red-state America? — GetRel...

Podcast: Religion ghosts in Pornhub's battle with Utah, Louisiana and red-state America? — GetRel...

When I first encountered David French, roughly two decades ago, he was a First Amendment expert known for his defense of religious liberty — for all kinds of people, including evangelicals in blue...

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Repeat after me: White Catholics voting in 2004. White Catholics voting in 2024 ... getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Repeat after me: White Catholics voting in 2004. White Catholics voting in 2024 ... — GetReligion

Repeat after me: White Catholics voting in 2004. White Catholics voting in 2024 ... — GetReligion

The topic of this Memo will not surprise readers. It’s time to focus on the U.S. Catholic vote in 2024, following up a prior Memo assessing religion angles with Donald Trump’s prospects . The Guy...

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Define 'evangelical,' 2023: What is a 'reconstructionist,' low-church Protestant? getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Define 'evangelical,' 2023: What is a 'reconstructionist,' low-church Protestant? — GetReligion

Define 'evangelical,' 2023: What is a 'reconstructionist,' low-church Protestant? — GetReligion

Yes, here we go again. Please consider the following an update on “ Define ‘evangelical’, ” “ Define 'evangelical,' yet again ,” “ Define 'evangelical,' please ,” “ That same old question for 2016:...

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Elite editors often ignore Catholic stories, so why is St. Pope John Paul II a target? getreligion.org/getreligion/…
Elite editors often ignore Catholic stories, so why is St. Pope John Paul II a target? — GetReligion

Elite editors often ignore Catholic stories, so why is St. Pope John Paul II a target? — GetReligion

What is news? Who gets to define that term? These are questions that I ask students when I teach journalism during their freshman year in college. It sounds like a simple question — but increasingly...

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What's missing from that 'conservatives pounce' New York Times sermon on trans fights? getreligion.org/getreligion/…
What's missing from that 'conservatives pounce' New York Times sermon on trans fights? — GetReligion

What's missing from that 'conservatives pounce' New York Times sermon on trans fights? — GetReligion

At this point in journalism history , does anyone expect to read New York Times coverage of events and trends on the Religious Right and find a single sentence that presents interesting, provocative...

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