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Video Links:

• 12.1 Religious Rituals
  Description: Introducing the ritual of religious worship, step by step, this video explains some of the dos and don'ts in regards to religious rituals around the world, and to show how the many gods are worshipped in various ways.
   
• 12.2 Religion and Cults
  Description: A TED talk by a former cult member turned deprogrammer speaks about the process of belief and conformity to powerful religious organizations.

Audio Links:

• 12.1 Religious Sins
  Description: Religion makes it pretty clear what differentiates mortal sins from venial ones. Mortal are the really bad sins and venial the lesser ones. But in our everyday lives, it can be really difficult to determine just how bad we've been. This week we have stories of people trying to figure out that question.
   
• 11.2 Faith
  Description: Stories of faith: losing it, talking about it, constructing it, and working within it.
   
• 12.3 Prayer
  Description: Can the secular world and the religious world understand each other?

Web Resources:

• 12.1 Alliance of Baptists
  Description: The Alliance of Baptists, an affiliation of more than 100 Baptist congregations, has been in official conversation with the United Church of Christ since the mid-nineties.
   
• 12.2 Witchcraft
  Description: Wicca is currently growing at an astounding pace.  Wicca emerged as a faith in the middle of the 20th century, but the origins of many Wiccan practices actually go back for thousands of years, and some researchers believe that certain aspects of Wicca can actually be traced all the way back to ancient Babylon.