{"id":6007,"date":"2016-03-19T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2016-03-19T13:02:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:02:28","slug":"spreading-good-news-with-a-small-and-capital-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/writing\/spreading-good-news-with-a-small-and-capital-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreading Good News with a small and capital &#8220;g&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was featured as a Faces of Faith interview by Rob Brill in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Faces-of-Faith-Writer-working-to-share-good-news-6922727.php#photo-9634993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Albany Times Union<\/a>. I&#8217;m honored. Here&#8217;s the story:<\/p>\n<p><b>MARY DeTURRIS POUST<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b> Born and raised in Pearl River in Rockland County. She graduated from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=local&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Pace+University%22\">Pace University<\/a>. Her husband, Dennis, and their children, Noah, 19, a freshman at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=local&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Le+Moyne+College%22\">Le Moyne College<\/a>, and daughters Olivia, 15, and Chiara, 10, who attend Bethlehem public schools, live in Delmar where they are parishioners at St. Thomas the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=local&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Apostle+Catholic+Church%22\">Apostle Catholic Church<\/a>. She&#8217;s director of communications for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=local&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Roman+Catholic+Diocese%22\">Roman Catholic Diocese<\/a> of Albany.<\/p>\n<p><b>Your resume includes reporter, editor, columnist, author and blogger. You&#8217;ve switched hats in your new job.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the culmination of everything I&#8217;ve done professionally over the past 32 years, not only as a writer but as a public speaker, retreat leader and commentator of Catholic issues. Dealing with the media is my favorite part of my job, because I&#8217;ll always be a journalist at heart. I love to find an interesting story in the diocese and get it out there in the secular press: Good news with a capital g and a lower case g. I do sometimes miss being a full-time writer.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Faces-of-Faith-Writer-working-to-share-good-news-6922727.php#photo-9634993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was featured as a Faces of Faith interview by Rob Brill in today&#8217;s Albany Times Union. I&#8217;m honored. 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