Jeffrey Weiss is an award-winning reporter who covered the ins and outs of faith 'n values for more than a decade for the Dallas Morning News. He watched the succession of popes from Rome, talked to Joe Lieberman about how his Judaism informed his politics, discussed the intricacies of Mormon theology with an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints, and got along with partisans on both sides of most major denominational battles. These days, his day job is covering local education for the News.