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• Even Bible is censored these days | In Saskatchewan last year, a newspaper was fined for publishing an ad that quoted Bible verses on homosexuality (John Leo, New York Daily News)

Books:

• Exploring the power of Abraham's legacy | Bruce Feiler, the bestselling author of "Walking the Bible," has brought his winning mix of insight, passion, and historical research to focus on one man whom all three monotheistic faiths trace their roots. (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Shared kinship of religions a key to peace? | Bruce Feiler, author of Abraham, thinks so (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• The listening church | For 1,500 years, it has been assumed that to be good and to be Christian were synonymous. That is simply not true now, says the author of God Outside The Box: Why Spiritual People Object To Christianity. (Richard Harries, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Age of the beast? | How do we rate the growing awareness that "the dry grit of secular humanism and empirical scientific knowledge cannot sustain us," as Lutheran theologian Frederic W. Baue observes? (Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI)

Pop culture:

• The new faces of Satan | As the devil is ridiculed in popular culture, serial killers—such as Hannibal Lecter— replace him as the embodiment of evil (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Christian entertainment spreading | Faith-based movies, music books moving into cultural mainstream (The News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla.)
  
  
• Yeah, yeah, minister | Sex and death are his themes, the church his sanctuary. Barry Divola meets the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Other stories of interest:

• God becomes Who I Am | Vietnam war veteran loses legal bid to change his name to God; chooses I Am Who I Am instead. (BBC)
  
  
• The peacemaker gives a lesson | In Sunday school, Nobel laureate and former President Carter talks about justice, Jamaica, and Jeremiah (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Belief in witchcraft rescues prisoner from death sentence (The Post, Lusaka)
  
  
• Israeli Tribes: Once lost and now found? | Searching for the lost tribes of Israel in India and Afghanistan (Newsweek)
  
  
• Embracing sensuality and transports of the spirit | All but unheralded, "The Ages of Mankind: Time to Hope" at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine seems to have dropped into place like an unbidden gift. (The New York Times)

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