Perhaps the poster's curiosity is "Why is the Dallas Morning News hiring a faith reporter?"

I follow Ryan Burge and his https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/ Substack to track the decline of religion in the US, so I am very curious about this reporting position, for example; he was also the subject of the piece submitted as Scholar of religion's decline faces his own church's closure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41021872 - July 2024 (2 comments)

(his book "The Vanishing Church" is also very good, highly recommend: https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781587436697_the-...)