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Islam, megachurches, polygamy – oh my!

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Tomorrow I’m headed to Durham, N.C. for the annual Religion Newswriters Conference and this year’s program is looking to be extra exciting. I’ve been attending this conference for years and I can’t resist blogging and tweeting while I’m there, so I hope you’ll stay tuned over the next few days. Some of the programs I’m especially looking forward to:

  • Muslims in America: The Next 10 Years
  • The State of American Fatherhood
  • Live or Onscreen: The Multi-site Experience (a look at the megachurch)
  • Religion and the 2012 Elections
  • Youth in Crisis: What Everyone Should Know About Growing Up Gay
  • Social Networking: Promise and Peril
  • Love Times Three (a press briefing with the family who inspired Big Love)
  • A Decade of Change in American Congregations
  • Atheism Revisited
  • Tour of Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple
As you can see, there’s lots to cover. My brain will likely be fried by the time I return. I’ll be back next week with lots of story ideas, but until then I hope you’ll follow my trip via this blog.
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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