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3. Flying on faith | Skier taps spirituality and sets world record with 255-foot cliff jump (The Denver Post)
   
   
4. Big air time | Andy Finch says he has been religious his whole life, but it wasn't until a devastating knee injury in January 2000 that he truly embraced Christianity. "I just know He's at work here. Angels got my board "(The Fresno Bee, Ca.)
   
   

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History:

1. Bombed church gets landmark designation | Relatives of the four black girls who were killed in a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963 gathered at the church where they died to mark its designation as a national landmark (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Christian lessons from black history | Sunday service finds message in old slavery story (Asbury Park Press, N.J.)
   
   
3. Merton papers donated to Bellarmine University | Robert Giroux said he was sorting through his New Jersey apartment last year when he discovered more than 3,000 pages of documents from the Roman Catholic monk and poet who died in 1968 (Associated Press)
   
   
4. Divining W | Inside Washington's God. An interview with Michael and Jana Novak (National Review Online)
   
   
5. What would Bryan do? | The Democratic Party could do worse than return to the Social Gospel of William Jennings Bryan (Michael Kazin, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
   
   

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Spirituality:

1. Has the race to faith passed you by? | Forget speedy 'born again' lightning. There are small steps that move you toward inner peace (Chicago Tribune)
   
   
2. Bird flu impels Christians to turn religiously vegetarian | The bird flu scare is impelling Christians to religiously observe the 50-day Lent, a period of frugality beginning Feb 27 leading up to Easter, by becoming pure vegetarians, according to several members of the community (IANS, India)
   
   
3. Religious imagery more than skin-deep | Religious imagery within the tattoo world has endured through such trends as mermaids on World War II sailors and tribal designs on rock stars. And as body art continues to gain popularity, an increasing number of people are inking their bodies with such sacred images as crucifixes, angels and praying hands (The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss.)
   
   

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Other stories of interest:

1. Jesus loves strippers | Lori Albee of JC's Girls Girls Girls wants to help spread the message of God's love to those in the sex industry (Beliefnet)
   
   
2. Conservative rabbis embrace non-Jews | 'Intermarrieds' are courted to stem declining membership (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
   
   
3. American pastor wades through landslide, helping rescuers | Gerry Brown, a corpulent, bearded pastor from the U-Turn for Christ evangelical church based in Perris, California, wades through waist-deep mud on central Leyte Island. His Filipino followers have set up a counseling center for rescue workers trying to find survivors of the landslide that buried the village of Guinsaugon (The Philippine Inquirer)
   
   
4. Vatican banker Archbishop Marcinkus dies at age 84 | Retired Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, a close confidant of popes whose long tenure as head of the Vatican Bank was marked by major financial scandal, mysterious deaths and a criminal probe, has died at the age of 84, Catholic Church officials said on Tuesday (Reuters)
   
   

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