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Personalities:

• Spirituality eclipsed | Public fails to see King as minister (The Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio)
• The gospel according to Stanley Hauerwas | This bald and bearded professor has made a name for himself in Christian and academic circles with his efforts to jolt Christians out of their complacency and force them to confront what he thinks is the radical message of the Gospels. (The News & Observer, Raleigh)
• Troublesome priest? | Front-runner in the Archbishop of Canterbury stakes, the Welsh primate appears the perfect New Labor cleric: an Anglo-Catholic traditionalist who backs gay and women priests. Alas for Tony Blair, he also likes to do his own thinking (The Observer)
• A bishop's unusual path to the pulpit | At 55, J. Jon Bruno has had many careers: restaurateur, pro football player, Burbank police officer (The New York Times)
• Criswell's biblical focus became a model for many | But his pulpit oratory, charged with emotion, has fallen out of favor (The Dallas Morning News)

Religious response to terrorism:

• Archbishop attacks war on terror | Archbishop of Wales calls Afghanistan action "morally tainted" (BBC)
• Plus: Canterbury contender denounces war on terror (The Daily Telegraph)
• Airing out religious icons | As sophisticated, technology-based efforts to preclude terrorism move forward, I have retreated to the vestiges of the Roman Catholic Church to ensure my safety, at least after I am dead (Mac McKerral, The Tampa Bay Business Journal)
• Post 9/11, minister reflects on the art of preaching | Martha Simmons has been collecting the historic and contemporary words of black preachers for The African American Pulpit. Now she's editor of 9.11.01: African American Leaders Respond to an American Tragedy (The Boston Globe)

Music & popular culture:

• Sounds of worship | Music is integral to religious life, and religion is integral to music (Newsday)
• DC Talk lets its music speak | Though the group has been together nearly 15 years now, sold millions of records and even won a Grammy, it still has trouble shaking the gospel label. (The Washington Times)
• 10,000-title Internet jukebox | Largest Christian music company puts its catalog online (The Dallas Morning News)
• Christian videos for Gen-X | Following on the Christian music boom of the past decade or so, there's now a Christian video boom (The News & Observer, Raleigh)

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January (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46