FRIDAY
Touring the Alamo

Members explore the Alamo after an appetizer reception and remarks by Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, Archdiocese of San Antonio (hear the audio).

(sponsored by San Antonio Express-News)

New Active Member Breakfast
8-9 a.m.

Presenters included three longtime RNAers, who talked about their years of experience on the religion beat along with their newest adventures in publishing.
• Janice Law
• Dick Ostling
• Russ Chandler

Morning Address: Michael Lindsay
9-10:10 a.m.

D. Michael Lindsay is assistant professor of sociology at Rice University where he is also the faculty associate of Leadership Rice and assistant director of the Center on Race, Religion and Urban Life at Rice University. He is also a Rice Scholar at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy . Dr. Lindsay’s work focuses on leadership, religion, and culture, and in 2003 he initiated the PLATINUM Study, a large-scale examination of Public Leaders in America Today and the Inquiry into their Networks, Upbringing, and Motivations. Lindsay served for several years as the consultant for religion and culture to the George H. Gallup International Institute. There he directed several national surveys on a range of topics. His latest book is Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite (Oxford Univ. Press, 2007).

AUDIO
• Introduction
• Michael Lindsay
• Q & A

Spooks, Spiritualists and things that go bump in our hotel
9-10:10 a.m.

Get your Halloween story done here! For some people, ghost-hunting is a hobby, for others it's a faith called Spiritualism that involves communing with the dead. For those who aren't Spiritualists, but believe in ghosts, how does their presumed existence relate to beliefs about heaven, hell and saints? We hear from a religion journalist who has written a book on Spiritualism, from an academic who looks for scientific evidence of ghosts and from a San Antonio ghost hunter who can tell us about some of the Menger's dead denizens.
PANELISTS
• Christine Wicker, author, Lily Dale
• Guillermo Fuentes, executive director, San Antonio Paranormal Investigations
• Rhett Rushing, folklorist, University of Texas, San Antonio, Institute of Texan Cultures

AUDIO
• Introduction
• Christine Wicker
• Guillermo Fuentes
• Rhett Rushing
• Q & A

Reporting the end of the world
2-3:20 p.m.

Don't be left behind on this story. What evangelical Christians believe about Jesus' return affects everything from Middle East politics to social activism to the bestseller lists. But not all evangelicals subscribe to the same scenario. This panel will feature a premillennial dispensationalist—that's the Left Behind perspective—an evangelical with a different reading of the book of Revelation and a Jewish leader who will talk about the uneasy alliance between the Jewish community and Christians who support Israel because they await Jesus' return there.

OVERVIEW
Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Audio
• PowerPoint presentation (with audio)

PANELISTS
• Darrell Bock, Dallas Theological Seminary
• Warren Gage, Knox Theological Seminary
• Rabbi Samuel Stahl, Temple Beth-El

AUDIO
• Introduction
• Darrell Bock
• Warren Gage
• Rabbi Samuel Stahl
• Q & A

Multimedia goes mainstream
3:40-5 p.m.

Journalistic success is now measured in clicks. What's the secret to making your story the most e-mailed story of the day at your paper? (There's a secret and we'll reveal it). What the heck is an RSS feed and why should you care? We'll have something for everyone from the most tech-savvy recent J-school grad to the boomer who failed to master the tape recorder before it went obsolete. Didn't know it was obsolete? You really need this panel.

PANELISTS
• Chuck Rose, USAT.com art director (USA TODAY)
• Jeff Weiss, The Dallas Morning News
• Bruce Nolan, New Orleans Times-Picayune

AUDIO
• Introduction
• Chuck Rose
• Jeff Weiss
• Bruce Nolan
• Q & A