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• What came first -- the atheist or the childless home? | A chicken-and-egg conundrum is peculiarly appropriate to a question involving fertility. Which came first, the waning of religion in the West or the fall in birth rates? (Gerald Owen, National Post)
  
  
• Close encounters of the engaged kind | Real marriage preparation, not the Hollywood version (Christine B. Whelan, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Religion today: Digital blessings from Nazareth | For $10, you can watch a Greek Orthodox priest pray blessings upon you from Jesus' home town (Associated Press)
  
  
• Christian Exodus leader faces change in plans | Burnell's planned move to Anderson on hold after publicity prompts would-be employer to cancel hiring (The Independent Mail, Anderson, S.C.)
  
  
• How banks defraud churches, charitable organizations | Though the business of banking is one that demands absolute trust and high sense of integrity on the part of the practitioners, the various malpractices perpetrated by banks or officials of banks in recent years have raised serious doubts about whether these virtues are still qualities of the profession. (Business Day, South Africa)
  
  
• Environmental in their faith | Religious groups incorporate environment into their beliefs (The Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs)
  
  
• Faith in tolerance | Religious people should be more tolerant of others (Becca Kantor, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  

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