Terry Mattingly

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Terry Mattingly is a veteran religion-beat journalist who, for 35 years, has written the national “On Religion” column, currently with Andrews McMeel Universal syndication. He is a senior fellow at Saint Constantine College in Houston. Mattingly previously led the Washington Journalism Center program for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and taught mass media and religion at Denver Seminary, Milligan University, and Palm Beach Atlantic University. For 20 years, he led GetReligion.org, which is now a research archive on mainstream religion-news coverage. Mattingly majored in journalism and history at Baylor University, as well as earning an M.A. in Church-State Studies. He has an M.S. in communications from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The Mattinglys live in Elizabethton, Tenn., and attend Christ the Savior Orthodox Church.

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In Western North Carolina, devastating floods have left only faith and hope for Christmas
In Western North Carolina, devastating floods have left only faith and hope for Christmas

Terry Mattingly of the Overby Center panel of experts reports that historic storms from Hurricane Helene have left North Carolina people without homes and still in desperate need of help.

The slog toward erasing bias: Long, complicated and incomplete

Charles Mitchell of the University of Mississippi and a member of the Overby Center panel of experts argues that the benefits of diversity initiatives can be significant.

Bluesky and X offer different visions of the marketplace of ideas

Jared Schroeder of the University of Missouri and a member of the Overby Center panel of experts makes the case that the migration to Bluesky is about the space in which we will engage in conversation.

AI and the problems with the black-box classroom

First Amendment scholar Jared Schroeder from the University of Missouri and a member of the Overby Center panel of experts writes that we’ve been concerned about students using AI for writing essays and getting test answers. We should be concerned about AI limiting knowledge and its effect on democratic society.

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