Big changes are happening in journalism, big changes happening in the church, and big changes are happening at Gegrapha.com. Stay tuned!

Calling all religion reporters around the world!

Gegrapha began within the four walls of a Hezbollah prison cell. Terry Anderson, the one-time bureau chief for Associated Press, was abducted in 1985 by Muslim extremists. He prayed that God would help him through the ordeal. At about the same time a small prayer group of Christians working for media outlets in Washington, D.C.   (more…)

NYT Times CEO Mark Thompson talks strategy

New edition published September 1st!

National Conference March 14th! After Iowa, you know that you need to brush up on your religious reporting.

Lee Strobel came to faith by examining the Bible like an investigative journalist.

GetReligion.org challenges NYTimes report of James Foley’s faith-change.

Arne H. Fjeldstad, tireless worker for Christian journalists, died suddenly on Sunday afternoon subsequent to a clot in the lungs.

Fjeldstad was chairman of Gegrapha, the international fellowship of Christian journalists. He also was head of The Media Project, which equips journalists, editors, teachers of journalism and media analysts to cover the topic of religion in public   (more…)

A Journey through NYC religions’ Retros hope to find religious innovations buried in NYC’s past that can be recycled. We practice “history that you can use.”

Jacob Riis brought a new way of doing journalism and photography in order to realize certain religious values.

“Creativity rarely flows out of an act of complete originality.It is usually the clash of two value systems or traditions, which, in collision, create a transcendent third thing.”

A Journey through NYC religions has created a vertical (feature series) called Retrospectives to show how the great questions of life have always been central to New York City.

The city poem is:

Make a buck here, but better ask, why does it matter?
Look good on the runway, but better ask, do   (more…)

How do you report on history without making most of your readers go asleep?

“If nothing else, prayer was the glue that enabled my freedom, an inner freedom…” — James Wright Foley, RIP