Patrick Kampert is a writer and communications consultant who spent 18 years as a reporter and editor at the Chicago Tribune and covered the Terri Schiavo case among other stories. His blog is reportingonfaith.wordpress.com. He is at work on a spiritual memoir.

Blog Entries by Patrick Kampert

A Tale of Abortion

Posted March 3, 2009 | 11:55 AM (EST)


Abortion is ready to engulf the nation as a social issue - again. President Obama has restored funding to overseas abortions and is poised to tell pharmacists who object to dispensing the morning-after pill to get a new job.

With even Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia telling "60 Minutes"...

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The Myth of the 'Liberal' Media: A Primer for my Fellow Christians

Posted October 26, 2008 | 04:52 PM (EST)


At my son's basketball practice last week, one of the other dads told me he'd just retired from the police force after more than a quarter-century on the job.

For part of that time, "I was the one who put you into a body bag," he said.

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Why Sarah Palin Doesn't Speak For Me

Posted October 17, 2008 | 03:10 PM (EST)


There are several reasons why I've never bothered with a fish symbol on my car. Yes, I think they're tacky. They also do a disservice to persecuted Christians of centuries past who used them as a means of covert identification.

But the biggest reason I don't have a fish...

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