Here’s my April 29 newsletter. To receive my latest articles, favorite religion reads and other updates in your inbox each Saturday, sign-up here.  My other life as an avid basketball fan has left me sad and sleepy this morning. I was at a Utah Jazz game until after 11 p.m., where I watched my team […]

Here’s my April 22 newsletter. To receive my latest articles, favorite religion reads and other updates in your inbox each Saturday, sign-up here.  This week had everything! Tiny homes, religious freedom law and a TV appearance. It’s part of my routine to research and analyze religion-related legal debates, so covering Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, […]

Here’s my April 15 newsletter. To receive my latest articles, favorite religion reads and other updates in your inbox each Saturday, sign-up here.  This week marked the release of our fourth annual Ten Today series at the Deseret News. I’ve been part of three of these projects, which explore how the Ten Commandments interact with […]

Here’s my April 8 newsletter. To receive my latest articles, favorite religion reads and other updates in your inbox each Saturday, sign-up here.  I’m on vacation, so enjoy the links without my usual awkward musings! FRESH OFF THE PRESS FROM ME Q&A: Why evangelism shouldn’t just be about increasing church attendance 4 charts that explain […]

Here’s my April 1 newsletter. To receive my latest articles, favorite religion reads and other updates in your inbox each Saturday, sign-up here.  Help! I’m buried under a pile of deadlines and I’ll never get out! I like to compare a religion reporter’s last two weeks before Easter to Finals week in college — there’s […]

Here’s my March 25 newsletter. To receive my latest articles, favorite religion reads and other updates in your inbox each Saturday, sign-up here.  Let’s mix things up this week with a list of interesting things that happened: I broke a nail on a paperback book. I finished a book about weather science and hurricanes. My […]

Here’s my March 18 newsletter. To receive my latest articles, favorite religion reads and other updates in your inbox each Saturday, sign-up here.  Hey everybody, I had an awesome week! My latest cover story on Catholic immigrants hit newsstands; I wrote two articles about faith and politics; and it was 70 degrees in Salt Lake […]

Here’s my March 11 newsletter. To receive my latest articles, favorite religion reads and other updates in your inbox each Saturday, sign-up here.  I’m happy to report that I survived Catholicpalooza and had quite a bit of fun attending more than three hours of services over two days. For the formal installation mass, I was […]

Here’s my March 4 newsletter. To receive my latest articles, favorite religion reads and other updates in your inbox each Saturday, sign-up here.  I’ll make this note short and sweet, because I’ve listed lots of great articles for you to enjoy with your Saturday brunch. I’m trying not to drown in a tidal wave of […]

Here’s my February 25 newsletter. To receive my latest articles, favorite religion reads and other updates in your inbox each Saturday, sign-up here.  I met yesterday with two religious studies professors, who encourage religious literacy on campus and in the world at-large. They were distraught, they told me, that class enrollment was falling and that […]