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• Loving the enemy | I thought creationists were monsters, until I married one (Tatiana Hamboyan Harrison, Newsweek)
  
  

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These kids today :

• A portrait of "Generation Next" | One-in-five members of Generation Next say they have no religious affiliation or are atheist or agnostic, nearly double the proportion of young people who said that in the late 1980s. And just 4% of Gen Nexters say people in their generation view becoming more spiritual as their most important goal in life (Pew Research Center)
  
  
• Praise pit to faith | In Australia, the band of the moment is the Planetshakers, named after the fastest growing Christian youth movement in the country Shaking the Planet. Its members are trying to do just that, from a praise pit rather than a mosh pit (The 7:30 Report, Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
  
  

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People :

• Powerful pastor has more than one reason to rejoice | For nearly two decades, the Rev. Frank M. Reid III has been the shepherd guiding one of the Baltimore area's largest and most influential congregations (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• That's Gov. Crist: C-R-I-S-T | Through no fault of his own, Florida's new governor is having a tiny bit of trouble with separation of church and state. Gov. Charlie Crist's Web site briefly referred to his aides as the "Christ Team." The misspelling was quickly corrected. And in fairness, some Florida newspapers have also mistakenly referred to Governor Christ (Morning Edition, NPR)
  
  

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Other stories of interest :

• Stepping it up | A '20s black frat dance is being revived in schoolyards, churches, and in a new movie (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• France 'no longer a Catholic country' | A poll published in Le Monde des Religions yesterday showed the number of self-declared French Catholics had dropped from 80 per cent in the early 1990s and 67 per cent in 2000 and to 51 per cent today (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Onward, Christian Zionists | Calev Ben-David reviews A Match Made in Heaven by Zev Chafets (The Jerusalem Post)
  
  

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