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Practitioners of all stripes distill religious teaching for on-the-go Americans

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 7, 2009 2:45 PM CST

(Newser) – Overscheduled Americans are fueling a boom in devotional books and media that mete out bite-sized doses of faith, the Los Angeles Times reports. An editor at a Christian book house calls its One Minute Bible “a ready-made, quick little devotion they can do every... Read full story »

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