Fox News Journalist Lauren Green: ‘Everyone is Made in God’s Image’
By Movieguide® Contributor
For former Miss America and Fox News Chief Religious Correspondent Lauren Green, acknowledging that everyone is made in God’s image is an important part of good journalism.
“Everyone is made in God’s image. So first and foremost, whoever they are, whatever they’ve done, you have to see them first as someone made in God’s image,” Green said on the “Jesus Calling” podcast. “And so with that in mind, when you talk about being objective in a story, I don’t think any journalist is truly objective in that sense.”
“If there’s a grand narrative of creation, everyone has a stake in what they believe and how they live it out,” she continued. “So with that in mind, you have to be respectful of a human being. How do you do that if you don’t agree with what they believe?”
You just look at them as someone who is made in God’s image.
“The best you can do is present this person’s story in the way that their heart and their mind needs it presented. I think that’s the best a journalist can do,” she said.
Green first joined Fox in 1996. For her, learning journalism wasn’t all a breeze. But by using her background in music, she eventually figured out how to make words sing.
“Before I was in the Miss America Pageant, I actually did some commercial work and some voiceover work and modeling work, so I was used to being in front of people,” she explained. “I think the thing that really concerned me was being able to write well, because I had an understanding of how I wanted a story to flow.”
“Journalism is very interesting because for me, my communication skills had really developed very, very highly in music. I understood sort of the emotional life of a person through music. And when I became a journalist, it was as if I was trying to translate from one language to another.”
The biggest challenge she faced was finding the right words that would flow well.
“I was trying to find words to communicate something that I only felt in music. And I think that has been the challenge in journalism my entire life, to find the exact words and exact phrasing that would say what I knew that the music could say in a different way. The challenge now is to find words that could kind of get close to interpreting and expressing the same thoughts, same feelings,” she shared.
Green sometimes reports on stories that have no religious content but also reports on stories that cover various religious issues.
“That is one of the challenges for living in a very secular world, is understanding and seeing God in the everyday,” she said.
“I grew up in the AME church. I was baptized in a Baptist church when I was in my twenties, and I was married in the Greek Orthodox Church. And one of my dearest, dearest friends is a very devout Catholic woman who is a member of Opus Dei,” she said.
So, the journalist possesses a broad knowledge of Christianity across its many denominations.
“I think that all contributes to understanding the body of Christ,” she said.
Movieguide® reported how Green cemented her faith after examining a musical piece:
While analyzing Handel’s “Messiah,” something clicked in Green’s mind about the God she served.
”It was like a revelation that hit me that I realized I saw the 10 Commandments really displayed in the harmonic analysis of the Hallelujah Chorus, and it just hit me, ‘That can’t be a mistake,’” Green said, later adding: ”I know there is no question you could ask that would destroy God.”
Besides her role as chief religious correspondent for Fox, Green also puts in time as an author. Earlier this year, she released a book called “Light for Today: 365 Daily Devotions from the Lighthouse” — devotions that “strengthen the spirit” and help “find silver linings.”
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