Ansley Roan
Journalist
Ansley Roan is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and The Dallas Morning News, and on CNN.com. She has worked as a senior editor at Beliefnet.com and as a freelance national correspondent for Religion News Service. She is the consulting executive editor for Big Questions Online. She has an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in English from Earlham College. She serves on the board of the Religion Newswriters Association.
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The Exploring Christian Practices Initiative aims to multiply opportunities and increase access to settings that help individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds explore and engage in Christian practices to address their spiritual interests and questions, find and build community with others, nourish their religious lives and grow in faith.
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