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Politics after 9/11:

• At prayer breakfast, black caucus members seek healing | Lawmakers gear up for wars temporal and spiritual (The Washington Post)
• Advocacy groups eye affects of attack | Lobbyists accuse ideological adversaries of trying to exploit the national crisis (Associated Press)

Finding God after 9/11:

• Faith after the fall | Newcomers flock to church after the terror. Is this a revival or just a quick hit of community? (Time)
• God is back | In the wake of an atrocity, he shows he hasn't forsaken New York. (Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal)
• Keeping the faith | Religious leaders are hoping to keep post-9/11 newcomers coming back for more (Marketplace, NPR)
• Religion at work is seeing a revival | A growing number of organizations incorporate religion into their business plans, trying to stay on the spiritual path of righteousness and still turn a profit—without offending anyone along the way (The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina)
• British firms asked to make Friday a day of prayer | U.K. also experiencing boom in church attendance, spiritual interest (The Daily Telegraph, London)
• People searching for peace in bookstores | Bible sales up 27 percent (KOCO, Oklahoma City)
• Bible, Idiot's Guide to Islam become season's hot books | Zondervan reports 27 percent increase in Bible sales (National Post, Canada)
• Bible Belt arrives in New York City | Many denominations had at least a small presence here before Sept. 11. But now they have reinforcements. (Associated Press)
• Crossing America: 'We need to pray deep' | Birdella and Ollie May Walls have God on their minds. And they notice that much of America seems to be thinking of God right now, or at least dropping his name. (The Seattle Times)
• Reaching for God | Henry Blackaby says the attack "turned the nation and leadership back to taking life more seriously, turning in a strong way back to God" (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
• Thousands in New England answer evangelicals' 'Call' | These are not ordinary times in Boston. And evangelicals see an opportunity for revival (Religion News Service)
• A nation under God (who will be defined later) | The American sense of providence emerges as a powerful tool in a time of crisis (Chris McGillion, Sydney Morning Herald)
• Robertson suggests religious revival | "The Lord is getting ready to shake this nation," he says at CBN's 40th anniversary celebration. "We have not yet seen his judgment on America." (Associated Press)
• N.Y. attack doesn't alter plans of ex-O.C. pastor | Saddleback Church still plans Manhattan church plant (Los Angeles Times)
• Toward peace | There's prayer, and then there's the wife and money trouble and Billy Graham (Alan Rifkin, Salon.com)
• Terror attacks could change paths of faith | Amid a surge of religious feeling among Americans, clerics see an opportunity to draw in people seeking answers to the incomprehensible (The New York Times)
• Near ground zero, unbowed spires | St. Paul's may one day be designated a memorial to the catastrophic attack on New York (The New York Times)
• Terror shakes faith, puts God in question | Even ministers wonder why God didn't stop the attack (Leonard Pitts)
• Youths of various faiths are struggling to move on | Many are uncertain how crisis will affect their future (The Dallas Morning News)

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