Angels are spirits who may guide someone to help her with her luggage at an airport
• Superstitious Folly
When, hark, the herald angels sing on Christmas, they may well be singing personally to a generation of young North Americans stamped as religious illiterates but whose spirituality is increasingly being defined by angel-belief.
It is a phenomenon being observed by Canadian and U.S. theologians who study young people's spiritual creeds. It spiked dramatically upward after Sept. 11, 2001, but has been growing steadily over the past decade.
Angel-belief is attracting young people dissatisfied with traditional religions