Religion should be covered like sports, Jews make good copy, and, let's be real, CrossFit is not a religion. After nearly seven years writing about faith every other week for The New York Times, Mark Oppenheimer leaves us with a few final reflections on what he's learned. One takeaway: Please stop calling religion coverage the "God beat."
"We are covering human beings who do stuff, or earn a paycheck, in the name of religion," he says. "If there is a God, then he, she, or it is not coverable by us."
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