Sam Kestenbaum

Sam Kestenbaum is a too-rare thing these days: a religion reporter. There was once a time when most newspapers -- national and local -- had writers on the religion beat, but as...

This spring, the media mogul Stephen E. Strang made an unusual apology to readers in the pages of his glossy magazine. Mr. Strang presides over a multimillion-dollar Pentecostal...