American teenagers more religious
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Today's youth are getting godly they say. And brain scans prove they are happier. Or sappy belief keeps the cortisol level down anyway.
Such teenagers have helped make a hit out of Joan of Arcadia, a CBS show about a 15-year-old who talks to God; it has been renewed for a second season. They've sustained a decade-long growth in the number of high school Bible clubs to about 15,000. They are swelling the enrollment at Christian colleges at three times the rate of other degree-granting schools. ...
Laura Sessions Stepp, Simple science: Kids and religion