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I was speaking to a colleague and friend on the telephone the other night about a particularly appealing set of career choices he was facing. He had called me for…

I am not a biblical scholar but a writer who grew up Catholic, attended Catholic schools until the fourth grade, and did a stint as an altar boy before leaving…

As I write this, I have just voluntarily given up my job as a reporter at The Sacramento Bee and left the profession of journalism that nurtured me for 21…

I was born into the Methodist Church, and by age six was asking questions to which the available answers weren’t then, and 74 years later still aren’t, wholly persuasive. My…

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I am not a particularly religious person, if “religious” is defined by observance of ritual, adherence to dogma and belief in theology. I curse more than I pray, forego services…

Why a Reporter Would Ignore the Media

Perhaps I was too flip in my answer to a frequent question. People asked how the editors at The Milwaukee Journal dealt with the fact that I observe the Jewish…

The precise moment journalism and religion came together for me was my senior year in college. I was in the library, reading The New York Times. There on page one…

Martin Luther King Jr. forced us white Southerners to contemplate our Christian claims. He had a dream that left us nowhere to hide in the Bible Belt. I wasn’t the…