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Many aspects of my Quaker faith have significantly influenced my career but perhaps none more profoundly than the abiding Quaker belief in being cheap. My fellow cultists refer to it…

Friends would say my religion is eating lunch at Pizza Hut — the breaking of the breadsticks — 1 do it more often than I attend Mass. I’m a struggling…

From the third grade on, I knew that I wanted to write. From early childhood, when my mother taught me the Lord’s Prayer, the 23rd Psalm and the 100th Psalm,…

In the face of mounting evidence of public distrust in journalists and their work, reasons and remedies for the problem abound. According to one line of thought, the problem stems…

I am not sure what influence my religious faith has had on my journalism. As I think about it, maybe it was the other way around. It may be that…

When asked to write about the influence of his Native American spirituality on his work as a journalist, Tim Giago — award-winning Founder, Editor and Publisher of Indian Country Today…

For a child living deep in the Bible belt, it was impossible to discount the influence of religion on daily life. My Alabama town was part of the solidly conservative…

Crusty editors and newsroom veterans at the now-defunct Arkansas Gazette taught me as a young reporter that hard work, fairness, concentration, commitment, compassion, devotion to truth and social responsibility are…

Noxious, Negligible or Negotiable?

One day, investigators were at of their many questions about some of the many matters into which they have inquired, lo, these many days. During a break in the interrogation,…