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NBC concluded its weeklong series Faith in America in the heartland. Monday, Lee Cowan told us about Protestant decline. Tuesday, Bob Faw took us to Angola Penitentiary in Louisiana where inmates have trained as Baptist ministers. Wednesday, Faw found a lack of musical directors to lead gospel choirs. Thursday, John Yang observed the advent of bestseller books by atheists. Now Ron Mott ends at the building site for a temple in Fort Wayne. An immigrant community of Asian Buddhists has raised the $360,000 to build their house of worship while their faith has attracted locals. Up to one quarter of Indiana's Buddhists are native born converts: "God, Buddha's followers contend, is not the focus; ending suffering--they believe caused by human cravings--is."
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