No Time For Faith? Try a Podcast

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 day.” But it’s not a substitute for real study: “It’s meant to whet your appetite.”

The boom seeks both believers and the uninitiated. One Midwestern evangelical broadcasts a “Faith Minute” he says is “preaching to people who have never been in the choir.” Another pastor canned a weekly study meeting in favor of a daily podcast. “You learn more 10 minutes a day, five days a week,” he said, than “one hour on Sunday, when you’re nodding off.” (More religion stories.)