One man loses, another gains religion through reporting

By Louis Medina
1/15/10

Consider this scenario: A reporter who is a committed born-again Christian takes on the religion beat at his newspaper because he feels a calling from God to tell the positive stories about Christians that are being ignored by his editors. But he ends up finding story after story—Catholic priest sex scandals, Christian televangelist sex and money scandals, Mormon excommunication scandals—that shake his Christian convictions, and in a matter of just a few years he ends up walking away from both his beat and his faith. the rest