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Thanks for listening and thanks for your go to the top of any top religion

stories list, and it has. What else is on that list of the top 10 religion stories of 2025?

Greetings in, welcome to Issues, et cetera, on this Tuesday afternoon, the sixth day of Christmas.

I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in.

Terry Mattingly joins us to go through the top 10 and maybe a little bit more. An hour from now,

we'll study the Christmas Him Joy to the World with Dr. Arthur Just.

Terry Mattingly is Senior Fellow on Communications and Culture at St. Constantine College in Houston,

Texas. He writes Rational Sheep, a substack newsletter on faith, family, and mass media.

He's author of the National On Religion column for the Andrews McMill Universal Syndicate.

And for two decades, he led the getreligion.org website.

Terry, welcome back.

Glad to be here.

What does this year's Religion News Association poll tell us about the religion news

that readers see in the mainstream media? Yeah, that's a question I've been pondering.

I tried to figure out, when did I start covering this poll? And I decided that I've been covering

the annual RNA poll for 43 years, four decades

plus. So I'm pretty familiar with what's in these things, but I think there's another

way to, I want to walk listeners through how I view this poll where they kind of understand where I'm

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