Comments about ‘Religion writing seeing noticeable improvement’

I've often wondered why, when a religion reporter needs a comment on a particular religious question, they'll get it from someone of another faith, and feel perfectly justified in doing so, as they had no other source. While serving his mission in São Paulo, my husband would have people quote outrageous points from a religious pamphlet claiming to know what our church believed. Even though untrue, people believed it because it was right there in black ink on white paper, so it had to be true, no matter who wrote it. Recently, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has helped things progress with easy online links to assist reporters in finding facts, and it's been a great improvement. More could be done with real-time answers, and I think President Hinckley, knowing all about media deadlines, was working to accomplish that when he died in 2008.

As the window opens wider on our faith with the presidential elections, and even "bad press" such as the Broadway musical and "worse press" like the Josh Powell incident, we must do what we always have: proclaim the truth as we know it. There are good and bad people everywhere. We all struggle to find meaning in our lives. Some find it's better with belief than without it.