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Addiction a click away

"Internet gambling is hooking shut-ins, including Christians"

John W. Kennedy | posted 4/01/2003 12:00AM

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"I now know addiction can happen to anybody," she said. "I prayed about it before, but I guess I didn't pray enough."

Related Elsewhere

In 1999 John W. Kennedy reported on a casino trend to seduce seniors in "Gambling Away the Golden Years."

Christianity Today sister publication Today's Christian Woman ran a first-person account of gambling addiction in 1996 with "What I Lost By Gambling."

Previous Christianity Today coverage of gambling includes:

Beating the Odds | Christians in two states defeat gambling by exposing its harmful effects on the poor. (Jan. 10, 2000)

Gambling Panel Urges Moratorium (June 14, 1999)

None Dare Call It Sin | How Mississippi's Bible Belt succumbed so quickly and so completely to the gambling industry. (May 18, 1998)

Spurning Lady Luck | Churches reject funds tainted by gambling. (Oct. 26, 1998)

Will Gambling Study Be Biased? (Jan. 6, 1997)

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