Lois Sweet
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Now, she thrives in the academic world; passing on the knowledge and tools young communicators will need to carry out their work with excellence and integrity. Passionate for her craft, she is also ardent for her God. Today that is by choice. But it wasn't always so. "As a teenager I read the Bible," she remembers. "I went to church twice on Sundays and Wednesday night prayer meeting and Friday night young people and Saturday night Youth for Christ. I wasn't allowed to do anything else." "Well—we were allowed to bowl," she laughs. Raised in a church Sweet describes as being "full of good people," but discouraging "independent thought," as a young woman she cast off the rigid dogmas of her youth, relishing her journalistic freedom to question and explore Canada's many multicultural communities, their values and traditions. "As a member of the media, I felt I had a responsibility to have some sense of what was going on," she says. "I made a real effort to meet people from a variety of communities through my work. And I was struck by the degree to which faith played a major role in defining how they lived their lives." "There's no reason in my mind why a Christian publication has to be of a lower quality than a secular publication," she says. "In fact, it seems to me that it should be quite the converse."
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