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•	Supporting ground-breaking research on how religion impacts people and encouraging its use by the appropriate professionals;
•	Creating resources and training to improve the religious literacies among professionals;
•	Developing and testing curriculum in religion for all disciplines;
•	Presenting public forums and other activities to increase the visibility of religion in the public sphere.

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	Investigating Religion: From Finances to Faith-based Organizations By Don Lattin Number crunching is not the reason most journalists – especially religion writers – choose their vocation. They want to tell human stories. At the same time, all good journalism is investigative journalism. And while religion reporters may cover the “faith-based” world, that is not an excuse to ignore that fact that there are facts that are important when writing about faith.
	Media & Conflict Resolution: A Report from a New Academic Frontier By Edmund B. Lambeth Perhaps the discipline of conflict resolution will become most important to the news media if the knowledge its researchers generate can help journalists understand and better report the dynamics of disputes at the individual, community, organizational and institutional levels.
	Religion and Pop Culture By Justin Hienz The intersection between religion and popular culture is broader than many people might think, but religion journalists are striving to change that. • Links to Religion and Pop Culture Websites
	Serving God and Country By LaRue Diehl, Laura Johnston, and Leah Lohse While the battle in Iraq rages on, the faithful on the homefront decide what is religiously right and what is realistic. • Fighting the Good Fight • What is a Just War? • The Soul of a Soldier • Denominational Statements on Iraq • About the Authors NOTE: This article, developed as a project for the course Journalism 8001: Religion and Public Life, first appeared in the Columbia Missourian on March 19, 2006. Reprinted with permission.
	Media Ethics Teaching in Century 21: Progress, Problems, and Challenges By Edmund B. Lambeth, Clifford G. Christians, Kenneth Fleming, and Seow Ting Lee What is the status of media ethics as a specialty in the journalism and mass communication programs of North American colleges and universities at the turn of the century? NOTE: This article, reprinted with special permission, appeared in the Autumn 2004 issue of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator.
	Naked Fitzies and Iron Cages: Individual Values, Professional Virtues, and the Struggle for Public Space By Barry Sullivan When we talk about the problem of religious values and the professions, we usually have something quite specific, and quite practical, in mind: the need of the professions to develop greater understanding, tolerance, and openness to religious values and practices, particularly those of clients or patients, but also those of the professions' members … • Sources cited • Meet the Author
	Separation Anxiety Between Religion and Medicine: Reclaiming the Sacred Dimensions of Healing By James D. Campbell, Ph.D. and David A. Fleming, M.D. Practitioners of both religion and medicine are concerned with sustaining and regaining health. The very definition of health and healing exemplifies the duality of restoring both the body and the spirit. • Meet the Authors • Key Questions • Share Ideas • Learn More
	Perspectives on Social Work, Religion, and Spirituality By Roland Meinert, Ph.D. Over the span of the last two decades, the profession of social work has officially embraced religion and spirituality as important features in the lives the clients receiving service. Social work students are trained to be sensitive to these dimensions, and practitioners are expected to explore them when clients seek service with problems in living. • Meet the Author • Key Questions • Learn More
	Q & A with Journalism Junior Fellow Ross Todd By Tim Hill Ross Todd, an RPP junior fellow, was recently named a finalist for the Chandler Award for Student Reporter of the Year in Religion News, an annual competition sponsored by the Religion News Writers Association. • Q & A with Ross Todd • Ross Todd's Religion Stories

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