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More on Christians and pop culture:

• Mainstream publishers get religion for Christian audience (Inside.com)
• Purging flame | Pa. church members burn Harry Potter, other books 'against God' (ABCNews.com)
• 'Puffy' Combs gets religion | And Del Toro talks about God (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Club-Goer Puff: I'm a churchgoer now (New York Post)
• Why some pastors don't want flocks to read 'Left Behind' (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
• Revelation: Reinterpreted, over-interpreted — or prophesy? | LaHaye's Left Behind enterprise not only distorts Revelation's message. It distracts us from it. (David Waters, Scripps Howard News Service/Abilene Reporter-News)
• 'Wildwood's' church of critters joins comics | New King Features syndicated cartoon stars Bobo the bear, who is the pastor of Wildwood Community Church, and his congregation of critters (The Detroit News)
• Also: Wildwood online (King Features)
• Catholic lay leader is re-imagining superheroes | "Jesus is the first superhero, really," says artist who depicts Stalinist Superman, and IRA terrorist Batman (The Guardian, London)
• Christians and other abstainers | Why those faithful who fast aren't simply chocolate soldiers. A review of Chocolat. (Frederica Mathewes-Green, Beliefnet)

Christian music:

• Michael W. Smith to host Dove Awards | Gospel Music Association show won't be shown live, but tape will be shown on Pax and WGN. (Associated Press)
• Revival of Bach hymn a tale of intrigue (The Boston Globe)
• Holy rocker | Quiet reverence not Carman's style (The Dallas Morning News)
• Also: Christian showman's radical approach to faith means few are indifferent to him | "Carman is Elvis for Jesus" says Christian radio host (The Dallas Morning News)
• Earlier: What's Wrong with Carman? | It's hard to imagine the Jesus who washed feet or who cried at Lazarus' grave (after all, he knew he was going to raise him!) or who surrendered to the cross getting equal billing with the dragon-killing knight, gunslinger or gangbanger at a Carman show. The Christ of Carman's concerts and videos is a tough guy, plain and simple, who solves his disputes by kickin' butt. This is the Christ that the Pharisees wanted to come. (Prism)

Science and health:

• Enlisting science to find the fingerprints of a creator | Believers in 'intelligent design' try to redirect evolution disputes along intellectual lines. (Los Angeles Times)
• Arkansas lawmakers target textbooks that present theories as fact | Bill would require teachers to have their students make note of what is false information and what is theory when discussing evolution (Associated Press/Freedom Forum)
• Creation Museum breaking ground | Answers in Genesis hopes to open first phase of the museum by the summer of 2002. (The Cincinnati Post)
• Therapy from the couch to the pulpit | People of faith turn to their churches in times of mental health crises. (The Sun, Baltimore)
• Fear of God | For thousands of Americans who suffer from scrupulosity, prayer is an obsession, not a comfort, and religion is a source of constant anxiety (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

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March (Web-only) 2001, Vol. 45