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• Song on final Cash album pleads with God | Singer recorded stripped-down version of Gatlin's 'Help Me' (Billboard)
  
  
• Who was Mary Magdalene? The buzz goes mainstream | A blockbuster novel, a controversial TV special, and a just-released book on a long-hidden gospel bearing her name: The woman known as Mary Magdalene is again at the center of a swirl of speculation (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  

Books:

• Does God exist? What are the odds? | Stephen Unwin explains it all in The Probability of God: A Simple Calculation That Proves the Ultimate Truth (Cathleen Falsani, Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• What would Jesus eat? | Don Colbert's primary goal is to promote healthful eating habits, but looking to the Bible for his subject matter at times propelled his book into theological waters (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Bridget Jones gets religion | Meet Whitney Blake. She's single, savvy - and Christian (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Woman finds 'life's purpose' in new book | After reading Rick Warren's book, Kendra Golden gave up her job as a school teacher and took a job for less pay at Life Church (KFOR, Oklahoma City)
  
  

What hath the '60s wrought:

• Palestrina was not in vogue | The counterculture struck at God himself. How much damage was done? (George Sim Johnston, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Prophetic misfires | Even the casual prayer of average Americans is an acknowledgment of a higher power and of our debt to that higher power (R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., The Washington Times)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• Blogging on | World's new blogsite: A chance to join Marvin Olasky in his editorial "catbird seat" (Joel Belz, World)
  
  
• Also: World Magazine Blog
  
  
• God, man and growth | Two economists go where angels fear to tread (The Economist)
  
  
• It's not Christian to champion hate | Christians around the country tell me they feel their faith has been co-opted by right-wing conservatives who depict all liberals as soldiers of Satan (Connie Schultz, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  
• Adults, not teens, the selfish ones | Divorce is at an all-time high, the marriage rate is the lowest in a century, the birth rate is plummeting and households are shrinking, but social researcher Hugh Mackay takes heart from the optimism of today's teenagers (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Papers reveal Jacqueline Kennedy's grief | The release of Richard McSorley's typewritten diary is raising questions about the propriety of a priest keeping notes on private discussions (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Jackie Kennedy's spiritual crisis | Diary of priest reveals widow's thoughts of suicide (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Time before Christmas for fasting and introspection | Just when the world begins to gear up to revel through at least three holidays — Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, or Hanukkah — I'm preparing to fast. This year, hints of the coming dissonance began exceptionally early (Michele Marr, The Independent, Huntington Beach, Calif.)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Mexico allows public officials to attend religious services, Missouri Baptist Convention breaks ties with William Jewell College, Billy Graham, at 85, weighs plans for 2004 preaching missions, and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  

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