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Julia Duin
Julia Duin is the Times' religion editor. She has a master's degree in religion from Trinity School for Ministry (an Episcopal seminary) and has covered the beat for three decades. Before coming to The Washington Times, she worked for five newspapers, including a stint as a religion writer for the Houston Chronicle and a year as city editor at the Daily Times in Farmington, N.M. She has published four books. The latest, "Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing and What to Do about it," was released Sept. 1. She has won many regional and national awards for her writing and has been nominated twice by the Times for a Pulitzer. She has covered events ranging from the election of Pope Benedict XVI in Rome and sex-selective abortions in India to the huge popularity of Christian colleges in the United States and a "new sanctuary" movement in mainline Protestant churches involving aid to illegal immigrants. She has learned seven foreign languages to aid in researching her stories.
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DUIN: Di Noia slated for archbishop post in Rome
Thursday, July 9, 2009
An unusual person will become an archbishop Saturday afternoon at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception here in Washington; unusual, in that he's a home-grown Dominican priest soon to be second-in-command at the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Older Stories
Pope urges global action on economy
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday released an encyclical tackling the moral dimensions of the global economic crisis, just in time for the Group of Eight industrialized nations summit that begins Wednesday in L'Aquila, Italy.
Gay issues atop Episcopalians' agenda
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Blessings of same-sex marriage and removal of an informal ban on gay bishops are expected to be the top items at the upcoming 10-day meeting of the Episcopal General Convention, which starts Wednesday in Anaheim, Calif.
Rick Warren envisions coalition of faith
Sunday, July 5, 2009
The Rev. Rick Warren, one of America's best-known evangelical Protestant pastors, pleaded with about 8,000 Muslim listeners on Saturday night to work together to solve the world's greatest problems by cooperating in a series of interfaith projects.
DUIN: Magazine takes soft-sell approach
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Leave it to some Canadians to come up with a magazine for the overchurched, out-churched and unchurched under-40 set.
Muslim gathering to reach out to others
Friday, July 3, 2009
The country's largest Muslim group will mount an unprecedented outreach to Christians and Jews this weekend at its annual conference, featuring an appearance by the Rev. Rick Warren, one of America's best-known evangelical Protestant pastors, at the main session Saturday night.
DUIN: New Anglicans split on women
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Last week's birth of a new Anglican province in the dusty plains of north-central Texas left the question of women's ordination dangling in the air.
DUIN: Minorities prep to teach theology
Sunday, June 28, 2009
When President Obama began appointing a host of former outsiders to serve on his faith advisory council, religion writers had to scramble to expand their Rolodex to include these new black and Hispanic voices.
Chaplain to the Senate
Guardian of faith on the Hill
Thursday, June 25, 2009
These are excerpts from an interview that religion editor Julia Duin had with the Rev. Barry Black, the 62nd chaplain to the U.S. Senate at his office in the U.S. Capitol. Mr. Black, the first Seventh-day Adventist and first black man to hold the chaplain's post, discusses his role in the Senate, his workload and his understanding of prayer.
Dissidents' archbishop anointed
Thursday, June 25, 2009
In an ornate ceremony in a Texas megachurch, the Episcopal bishop of Pittsburgh was made archbishop of the 100,000-member Anglican Church of North America on Wednesday night.