Since The God Blog ” title=”DMN religion blog” target=”_blank”>DMN religion blog, are not what they used to be. Others have stopped posting altogether.
In the past two weeks, we lost a pair of good ones. (Update—add Belief Beat to the list.) First, the Seeker, which had already gone through one major transition, ” title=”Nicole Neroulias Belief Beat” target=”_blank”>Nicole Neroulias’ Belief Beat. Now today, Gary Stern of Blogging Religiously says that he’s “” title=”religion pages were dying” target=”_blank”>religion pages were dying, newspapers (about a decade late) discovered blogs and many encouraged religion reporters to start religion blogs. When those papers later killed their religion beat, they often still had a newly assigned reporter who could keep up the religion blog.
But as Stern’s story shows, even that’s not sustainable in many situations.
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