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Books:

• Please Lord, make me rich | The Prayer of Jabez, a book based on a passage in the Old Testament, has sold four million copies in America with the message that greed is Godly (The Times, London)
• Also: Chronicles of an evangelical bestseller (The Times, London)
• Tommy Tenney's TheGodChasers Chased Out by Two Denominations | Stores have blacklisted bestseller because of doctrinal objections (Charisma News Service)
• A saint whose lifework was on the cutting edge | Review of Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life (The Boston Globe)
• 'Left Behind' and the rupture over the rapture (Karen Long, Religion News Service)

Pop culture:

• One Christian band that's built a strong following | Plus One, a boy-act alternative, says its well-scrubbed style fills a void on the scene. (Los Angeles Times)
• Kinkade, king of kitsch, coming to a home near you | love him or loathe him, Thomas Kinkade is the world's bestselling living artist whose soft-focus landscapes have taken America by storm—and are now heading en masse for Britain's living rooms (The London Independent)
• Earlier The Kinkade Crusade | "America's most collected artist" is a Christian who seeks to sabotage Modernism by painting beauty, sentiment, and the memory of Eden. (Christianity Today, Dec. 8, 2000)
• N.J. newspaper pulls 'B.C.' comic | Funny pages were no place for religious commentary, says Star-Ledger editor (Associated Press)
• Also: Public debate best way to handle controversial 'B.C.' comic | From "Pogo" to "Doonesbury," comic strips sometimes touch nerves and trigger controversies that can lead some papers to cancel them. But dropping a cartoon isn't the answer. (Charles Haynes, Freedom Forum)

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