Leaving Las Vegas (well, the Sun-Times, actually)

For those of you not following me on Twitter or Facebook, I wanted you to know:

Yesterday I lost my gig at the Chicago Sun-Times, the paper where I’ve been religion writer (reporter and/or columnist) for nearly a decade.

Budget cuts. Shrinking paper. Yada yada yada. 

I’ll explain more on Friday in my penultimate column for Chicago.

My last column for the Sun-Times will run on Jan. 22.

One door closes.

Another opens.

(Photos  from Zanzibar Town, Zanzibar. October 2007)