Ah, what a welcome surprise. Religion editor for The Age, Barney Zwartz, has joined the fray with theage.com.au’s Blog Central. He's started a new blog: The Religious Write.
An Age journalist for 26 years, and religion editor for five, he has a degree in theology and is part-way towards a doctorate in moral philosophy.
While covering an investigative piece on faith and the media last year, I had the privilege of hearing Zwartz guest speak at a Religious Education AGM and later interviewing him.
As journalist and theologian, I wonder if many people find this an uneasy mix. But the contradictions, I feel,has more to do with rhetoric and popular assumption than a genuine divide between the two.
If media’s role is a mirror that reflects the various fragments of society at its worst and best, then a journalist-theologian is the best person to walk the tenuous line of faith in the context of reality.
G.K. Chesterton was a journalist himself, who infamously observed that Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, but rather, that it has been found difficult and left untried.
It’s far easier to keep our religious activities separate from our daily lives, our jobs. Zwartz is a brave man. To allow his faith to be tested in a world of chaos, confusion and suffering – and at the end of it, to ask, "Is God really good?"
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