This summer, I attended a conference of spiritually-minded writers and artists at a convent near Baltimore, organized by the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the
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Old-Time Religion: Musician-Preacher Ben Townsend Had to Go Home to West Virginia to Find Himself
Ben Townsend, old-time musician and overalls-uniformed Methodist preacher, lives at the bottom of a hill by a stream in Capon Bridge, WV, pop. 414, in
African Nun in Moundsville, WV, Strives to Help Needy in Appalachia
Sr. Agatha Munyanyi, 69, has spent her life helping others. That’s how she ended up in, of all places, Moundsville, West Virginia, a town of
Secrets of Small-Town Journalism: Local Angles and No Free Stories
Hannah Spaar, news editor of The Odessan in Odessa, MO, and a member of the board of directors of the Missouri Press Association, would like
The American Dream is Dead. Long Live the American Dream.
Chickens in pots, cars in garages, kids walking to school, salaries fat, jobs for life, families happy, Little League and soda pop, juicy turkeys for
The Case for Mac n’ Cheese Journalism: Americans Won’t Trust the News Unless They Get Daily Stories About Their Neighbors
In the conversation about how to revive the U.S. local journalism industry, we’re talking too much about the kind of journalism we think Americans need