This is the “religion and spirituality” section of a community website from the company, American Towns. The company began in Pleasantville, N.Y. and seeks to help citizens connect by providing a community website where citizens can post events and information. Most helpful for story ideas is the calendar of religion and spirituality.
This is a well-recognized magazine journalism websites on spirituality, faith, and religion. It’s independent, written by journalists and is not affiliated with any denomination. It offers information on all the well-known faith traditions as well as most of the less-recognized ones. For each, you can find out about the founders, history, tenets and activities of that tradition.
This is a Syracuse-area group that works with all the religious groups in the area, supports a community-wide dialogue on race, resettles refugees, provides chaplain services in hospitals, and conducts programs on interfaith dialogue. Most helpful is the search page for any faith community in the area.
This is an independent Roman Catholic online newspaper which is helpful in finding current issues, podcasts and events related to the Roman Catholic Church.
This is the website for a Skaneateles woman, Cindy Griffin, who does psychic readings, offers counseling and markets products. It has information on psychic fairs in Central New York and can be helpful for stories on psychics.
This is a wire service that carries only news about religion. It’s well-respected, run by journalists, independent of any religious group and owned by Advance Publications/Newhouse News Service This website provides objective coverage about religion and current issues. It can be helpful for story ideas. See also the blogs.
This is the professional association of reporters who cover religion. It provides story ideas, news releases from major religions, an impressive and long online religion library, webinars, blogs and many ways to get story ideas or research a story.
This site provides a religious glossary for terms you may come across while covering a religion story.
This is the website for the largest religious body in the area, Roman Catholics. You can find any parish in a seven-county area.
This is the website for the United Methodist Church in CNY. United Methodists are the second most populous Christian group in the area. See the bottom of the home page, “Looking for Information.”