He didn’t exactly hide it. His first book was “God and Man at Yale” where he railed at Yale for being too secular - in 1950! Not deist, though, theist in general and Catholic in particular.
I agree with your estimate of the BBC, and the Washington Post is famously good for investigative journalism, but the New York Times has been annoyingly unskeptical about the recent rash of military UFO reports. A little more depth please, NYT, before I count your paper among the ranks of the reliable.
Sure, but you’ll still come away smarter after reading it, as opposed to reading Fox, the NY Post, The Blaze, OANN, etc.