As my Columbia classmates prepare for home, beaches and master’s project work during next week’s spring break, I will be getting on a plane tomorrow to Ireland. I’m going as part of a class of 16 students for Columbia’s “Covering Religion” course, a trip provided through the Scripps Howard Foundation.
The class has taken these trips [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Religion’
March 11, 2009
Heading to Ireland to cover religion
January 30, 2009
Newspapers and a daily prayer
One of the more unique features of The Indianapolis Star (unique for a Californian like me anyway) was the daily prayer in the newspaper. A tradition that went back decades, The Star had a one-sentence generic prayer on page 2 in each edition, written by a Presbyterian minister who was paid $20 a week.
The paper [...]
