🔔NEW story from me: Evangelist @Franklin_Graham pushed a domestic abuse victim to return to her husband. He asked whether she was cheating on her husband. “It was a good question to ask,” Graham told me. “I would’ve asked it again.” washingtonpost.com/religion/…

Today I was laid off from my job covering Amazon for Jeff Bezos's Washington Post.

After 8 years writing the tech column @washingtonpost, I am among folks who were laid off today. I’m grateful for the stories I got to tell and the impact we made on privacy, sustainability & AI. You can keep following my work on my new (free) Substack geoffreyafowler.substack.com…

I was also laid off from @washingtonpost in today's cuts. I am incredibly proud of the work my colleagues and I did, including our unflinching coverage of the Gaza war -- which still hasn't ended for Palestinians there. Please, readers, support the journalism this world needs.

RT @Marissa_Jae: I was laid off today by The Washington Post. I’m proud of the work I have done at this place — not just the award-winning…

I’m stunned and heartbroken. I’ve been laid off, along with so many dear colleagues. Making my way to The Post nine years ago felt like a dream come true.

I was so lucky to work at the @washingtonpost for more than a decade, alongside tenacious, world-class journalists. I know how deeply committed the staff is to the mission of holding power to account, and how much grit and bravery they bring to unearthing stories that would otherwise go untold. The loss of so many journalists is gutting for all of us who care about The Post and its long history of independent, rigorous reporting.

New from me, on the death of a Southern Baptist whistleblower as the annual convention opens in Dallas, "an annual meeting where abuse reform is dead in the water." With remembrances from @BethMooreLPM, @KSPrior and others: nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/je…

Do people still check Twitter? If so, I have a piece for the @nytimes Book Review: Read more here about a new biography of an evangelist shrouded in scandal... and how she predates Trump's evangelical pastor friends. nytimes.com/2025/04/22/books…

My first obituary for the @nytimes — Paul Pressler, disgraced leader in the Southern Baptist Convention, has died at 94. Once revered, as many as seven men accused him of sex abuse nytimes.com/2024/06/16/obitu… Thanks to @RobertDownen_ @baptist_news for their earlier news reporting

NEW: A conservative Christian nonprofit that controls a section of the Jersey Shore will reluctantly open its beach this Sunday morning for the first time in 155 years. But the Ocean Grove organization intends to challenge an order from the state. nytimes.com/2024/05/21/nyreg…

New story -- Can a Christian Community Close the Beach on Sunday Mornings? In Ocean Grove, N.J., a conservative religious organization sets the rules. The state has challenged its right to keep sunbathers off the sand. nytimes.com/2024/04/12/nyreg…

Here's my story on a massive new Hindu temple sits in what used to be farmfields in New Jersey. nytimes.com/2023/10/21/nyreg…

The reporting of abuse at Christian mega-camp Kanakuk has been shocking, but today @NancyAFrench reported that there has been no disciplinary action against any supervisors of a former camp director who prosecutors say may have abused 100s of children.

A Louisiana @kanakuk victim came forward today - after 20 years of believing he was the only victim of super predator Pete Newman. Newman's now in prison for the rest of his life for child abuse with an estimated 'hundreds' of victims. How did this happen? A thread. /1

Hernan Cuevas arrived in Highland Park four days before the shooting. Now, he was responsible for leading his church through a horrific act of violence. wapo.st/3nNd6BV

SCOOP from @bobsmietana and me: The company that owns Newsweek magazine has filed suit against its former owners and religious leader David Jang, seeking to recoup millions of dollars in losses incurred under previous leadership. religionnews.com/2022/07/07/…

A number of pastors have passed around a story that questions whether Jen Lyell spoke to the police or if her allegations were accurate. A Jeffersontown officer confirmed that she reported. And several SBC agencies corroborated the allegations. religionnews.com/2022/07/06/…

Yes, the SCOTUS ruling in WV v EPA is a "blow to Biden's climate agenda," as many reporters (including me) have written. But this kind of framing misses that it's really a blow to efforts to cut emissions in line w/ climate science. Physics doesn't care about politics.