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I'm really enjoying Rob Gifford's "On the Road in China" on NPR's Morning Edition. Today's episode was particularly good. Gifford had stopped to talk to a group of people at a Protestant church waiting for an itinerant preacher. When the preacher failed to show, the congregation pressed Gifford into giving a sermon because they assume that all Westerners are Christians. I don't know what Gifford's actual religious views are, but apparently the sermon was a little dicey. (You'll need either Real Audio's player or Windows Media Player to listen, unfortunately. I don't know why NPR is locked into the two crappiest audio formats on the web, but that's a different post.)