Godbeat pros are meeting in the D.C. area.

By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged

BETHESDA, Md. — Greetings from just outside the nation’s capital.

The Religion News Association’s annual meeting started Thursday, and I’m enjoying the opportunity to connect with old friends and make new ones.

I attended my first RNA conference in Nashville, Tennessee, in the fall of 2002, just a few months after joining The Associated Press in that same city. I met the late, great Rachel Zoll — then one of AP’s two national religion writers along with the legendary Richard Ostling — at that meeting. What a blessing!

We’ll stick with the RNA theme as we jump into the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

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This column appears in the online magazine Religion Unplugged.