These articles—on faith, the Holocaust, and war and peace issues—are among those I wrote on the religion beat in the 1990s and 2000. They're pretty long—very different from the columns I wrote for the editorial page. But I enjoyed having all that space to tell a story at length. My friends laughed when I left the news side in 2001 to join the editorial page: How was someone who was accustomed to spending a couple of weeks reporting out a story, then writing 2,000 to 4,000 words, going to adjust to a daily deadline and write editorials of 300 words or so?