Religion

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…

Sarajevo

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…

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…

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…

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…