What a great story on a great guy! Chase has been a blessing to our small church! we all just love how excited he is about god- you can truely hear it in his sermons. chase is truely a one in a million guy!

Love teri purcell

I’d love to know the source of the “credible surveys” you mention that show 85 percent of TV reporters have no religious beliefs.

By the way, you mentioned Houston. Greg Hurst, an anchor at KHOU-TV, is a faithful member of the Memorial Church of Christ in Houston. His father-in-law is Alan Highers, who is pretty well known in some circles of Churches of Christ.

NBC’s Lester Holt, a member of the Manhattan Church of Christ in New York, talked about the perception of the media as non-faithful people in an interview with The Christian Chronicle last year. He told me: “I think there’s a connotation that we’re the liberal, atheist media. And I know a lot of people in this business who are people of faith — maybe not this specific faith that I share, but people who believe in God and follow their faith. So I don’t find it hard.”

I mention all that not to disagree with your main point that many in the media don’t understand faith or religion, and may even be hostile to it, but the 85 percent figure sounds high to me.

I do appreciate you sharing your thoughts.

This guy really stands out in a business where credible surveys show more than 85 percent of its practitioners profess to have no religious beliefs.

Most TV reporters were raised in homes where religion played no role in their lives. Consequently, they have little or no knowledge or understanding of religious teachings, which is why their coverage of religion issues is so superficial and painful to watch.

I watched a story on a Houston TV station a few years ago, reporting on the Pope’s appointment of the new Archbishop of Galveston-Houston. The reporter stated that “Christians in southeast Texas now have a new spiritual leader.”

Being personally acquainted with that reporter, I ran into her a few days later and asked her about her story. I was astonished to learn that this person, educated in a respectable school of broadcast journalism, did not know the difference between Catholics and Protestants. In fact, she didn’t even know what a Protestant is. She thought all Christians are alike, and that the Pope rules over all of them.

How is it possible that in a country where 75 percent of the people say religion is important in their lives, that someone could grow to adulthood, be educated in public schools, and even graduate from a respectable university, and be so woefully ignorant of things religious?

This is why I cringe every time I see a story about churches and religion coming up on my local TV.

This young man in Victoria appears to have his priorities straight, but I hope he’s happy where he is in one of the middle markets. There’s no way a major market station would allow one of its anchors to be a minister on weekends.

Keith Maxwell
Pro17 Engineering

- Lacey