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• 'Whose God?' Moyers, panel seek answer tonight | How can so many people invoke God's will while snuffing out the lives of others? (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Pat Robertson's evangelical propaganda | Hardening the American heart (Salim Rashid, CounterPunch)
  
  
• Rael Religion? | 'Cultist' cloning advocates test definitions of faith (ABCNews.com)

Church life:

• Still proceeding to honor the Magi on the 12th day | Epiphany: Several Howard County churches prepare to observe the Feast of the Three Kings (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Christian karaoke CDs get booming reception | Family Christian Stores Inc. released six different karaoke CDs in October featuring Christian performers (Associated Press)
  
  
• Churches use multimedia to reach modern masses | Slowly and surely, the gospel is becoming electric in a growing number of churches (The Detroit News)
  
  
• Are lottery winnings acceptable donations? | Some churches say no thanks to gamblers' gifts (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Troubled church orders second audit | Initial report finds evidence of misappropriation at Southwest Community Church (The Desert Sun)
  
  
• 'Cutest little church' faces final sermon | Sixty-three years of Sunday services will come to an end in 23 days when Black Diamond United Church parishioners say a final prayer in their "sweet little" church in the heart of the small town's business district (Calgary Herald)
  
  
• 'Happy-clappy' rector hits the road | A rector who attempted to stamp out criticism of his "happy-clappy" services by suspending choristers, "demoting" the organist, and trying to oust the captain of bell-ringers has quit (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Reconciliation comes in Brownsville Revival split | Two sides apologize for hurt caused by division (Charisma News Service)
  
  
• Earlier: Weblog: Schism Threatens Brownsville Assembly of God as School Head Fired (Dec. 28, 2000)

J.R.R. Tolkien:

• The ring and the cross | How J.R.R. Tolkien became a Christian writer (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Lord of Rings author toasted on `eleventy-first' (Chicago Tribune)

Other stories of interest:

• Debate erupts over authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls | Though much has been written about the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves, the ruins of Qumran where the scrolls were found were largely unexplored, until now (The New York Times)
  
  
• Turkish group demands 'Santa's bones' | The Santa Claus Foundation says remains were stolen from what is now Turkey by pirates in the 11th century and taken to Italy (Associated Press)

• The future of secularization theory | The assumptions of academics and social commentators about the certain decline of Christianity in the West were challenged at a international conference on the future of Christianity in the West at the University of Otago in New Zealand this past December (Richard V. Pierard, Sightings)

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