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Pop culture & material culture:

• After complaints, Abercrombie pulls thongs from shelves | Rearless underwear was aimed at preteens (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
  
  
• Earlier: Skimpy underwear draws fire for A&F (Associated Press)
  
  
• Vatican cross at stars' crucifixes | Glamorous stars who wear crosses as fashion accessories have come under attack from the Vatican. (BBC)
  
  
• Find religion, or at least supplies, on the Web | The World Wide Web is abound with places to shop for religious-themed merchandise, whether it be ornaments, gifts for weddings and other special events, whimsical presents, or tools used in ceremonies. (Reuters)
  
  
• Amy Grant is back with two new albums | One is contemporary Christian, the other pop (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'NPR for Christians' to hit TV | 'Day 1' radio show expanding its reach (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Selling sisterhood | Nuns using vocal ad campaign to recruit new clergy (ABCNews.com)

Missions & ministry:

• A home of one's own - with help from the church | From Harlem to Hayward, more churches in urban America are taking an active role in helping their members - and others - buy homes (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Relief workers train in N.E. Georgia town | 3,300 Baptists commit to working five-day stretches at disaster sites with Georgia Baptist Relief (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Church life:

• The Bible and the stripper | Don't believe everything you read about the stripper with a heart of gold and the mean church that persecuted her (Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• One preacher, two congregations | Frank Horton wrestles with diminishing Methodist churches (Associated Press)
  
  
• Hymns have stories to tell | William J. "Bill" Reynolds, distinguished professor emeritus of church music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been tracing history of hymns since his youth (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• Chicago cardinal proposes selling his mansion | He says the estimated $15 million price could keep the deficit-laden archdiocese from closing more schools, or help pay sexual abuse settlements. (The New York Times)

Other stories of interest:

• What's evil? Who decides? | Psychiatrists weigh in on how to define vile and heinous behavior. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Let us pray | Since 9/11, more people are seeking a spiritual dialogue, but they don't always know how to connect. Sometimes simplicity works best (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• New group calls for Christian unity | Christian Churches Together in the U.S.A. could eventually supplant the National Council of Churches (Associated Press)
  
  
• Russia's well-connected patriarch | As church enjoys revival of influence, its past remains clouded (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Do Christians have to work on Sundays? | An employer might be off base in such a requirement, but the answer is not totally clear. (The Washington Post)
  
  
• May the board, er, Lord be with you | The definition of soul surfing has gone literal, with the first edition of Surfers Bible to hit Australian bookstores next week. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Don't call it a religion! | So what is theosophy? (Brian McGuire, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  

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