All I can say is that newsrooms must make room for skilled, informed journalists who are committed to improving coverage of religion news. At the same time, Christian leaders must make room in their faculties and staffs for skilled educators and professionals who are committed to helping the church respond the signals carried by mass media. This will not be easy. Editors and Christian leaders do face shortages of time and resources. Seminary leaders, to cite one example, have even less breathing room in their core-course lists than editors do in the pages of their daily newspapers.
Budgets are always tight.
Meanwhile, the wall remains in place. The whole subject of religious faith, especially in its more pushy and transcendent form, continues to give most media professionals sweaty palms. Meanwhile, church leaders love to complain about some of the images and messages carried by mass media. Yet, if they are honest, they know that it's impossible to talk about discipleship and evangelism in America or worldwide without facing the role that mass media play in daily life. It am convinced that this would be naive.