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"If Jesus is savior of the world and healer of the heart, then why would anyone want to stop at a table and get someone's autograph?" says Christian speaker and head of sixsteps records Louie Giglio. "Whether the concert's Steven Curtis Chapman or Dave Matthews or whoever, for me I'm going to walk out [of] the lobby and say: 'Hey, that was great, but I'm going home now. I'm going home with God. I can't trump that.'"

• Say a little prayer for you | How the tale of a slave trader's salvation became a song for the ages (U.S. News & World Report)
• After singing together nearly 60 years, Blind Boys win Grammy and new fans | New CD, "Higher Ground," due out in September (Associated Press)
• The revelator | The further she migrates from the gospel formula, the closer Gillian Welch brings her listeners to God (Killing the Buddha)
• Where's the return fire in culture wars? | The Billboard charts are crammed full of the vulgar and violent these days, with lyrics celebrating every pathology under the sun, plus a couple of pathologies that apparently were hiding under bridges (David Segal, The Washington Post)
• At African monastery, convergence of cultures yields new religious music | At prayer every day, the white-robed monks of Keur Moussa, Senegal, lift their voices in centuries-old Gregorian chant, accompanied by the delicate strains of a traditional African harp (Associated Press)

• Bloomberg's gift | Mandatory abortion training arrives in NYC public hospitals (Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online)
• Abortion and crime | Has abortion led to a dramatic decline in violent crime? (Law.com)
• Earlier: A Death Penalty Before the Crime | If "unwanted" children are destined for crime, can we make them wanted? (Editorial, Christianity Today, Oct. 4, 1999)
• Bishops express concern over Euro abortion report | Government puts bishops' minds at rest (The Times of Malta)
• Playing God | Bush's bioethics czar Leon Kass wants to criminalize lifesaving medical research as violating the natural order of things. Would he have opposed wiping out smallpox? (Scott Anderson, Salon.com)
• Earlier: Defender of Dignity | Leon Kass, head of the President's Council on Bioethics, hopes to thwart the powers of the business-biomedical agenda (Christianity Today)
• Prolifers force U.S. to slash Third World aid | International efforts to control population growth in the developing world could be fatally undermined following a decision by President Bush to slash millions of dollars of funding for a UN family planning program (The Observer, London)
• Dutch license floating abortion clinic | Anger as activists win right to offer abortion pill (The Guardian, London)
• Judge says executions violate Constitution | A U.S. district judge in New York ruled yesterday that the federal death penalty creates "undue risk" of executing innocent defendants (The Washington Post)

• Graham mission breaks attendance records | Reverend asks crowd to come home to God (WLWT, Cincinnati)
• Graham: 'God bless Cincinnati' | Wrapping up his four-day crusade, Billy Graham urged Greater Cincinnatians Sunday night to repent their sins and "leave here with a new direction." (The Cincinnati Post)
• Crusade reaches 96% of financial goal | Group has already promised to make up shortfall (The Cincinnati Post)
• Pastors learn the Graham style at school | At the Billy Graham School of Evangelism, a week-long seminar that meets several times a year at locations throughout the country, the message is aimed squarely at the person standing at the pulpit: Lead your congregations through example (The Cincinnati Post)

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