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• City blocks church's building plans | Site on Duke Street historic, board says (The Washington Post)
  
  

Missions and ministry:

• 'Hell House' finds new home on stage at Denver church | Scenes of sins and punishment will now be a sit-down show (Rocky Mountain News)
  
  
• Casting out demons, by means of deliverance | A practitioner urges wider use of these controversial sessions (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Churches unite for common goal | The 20-church group will come together hoping to draw people to church by handing out fliers (News-Press, Santa Barbara, Calif.)
  
  

Christian animation:

• David vs. cash flow | Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber are in a pickle (Jonathan Eig, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Lutherans reviving 'Davey and Goliath' | There's a simple reason why "Davey and Goliath" remains part of pop culture 28 years after the last installment was produced: Simplicity. (Tim Cuprisin, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
  
  

Film:

• Passion misplay | Who killed Jesus? Time for both Jews and Christians to fess up (Steven Waldman, Slate)
  
  
• Earlier: Who Killed Jesus? | After centuries of censure, Jews have been relieved of general responsibility for the death of Jesus. Now who gets the blame? (Christianity Today, Aug. 24, 2000)
  
  
• The Cardinal & the Passion | Gibson's controversial movie gets a Roman endorsement (Antonio Gaspari, National Review Online)
  
  
• Cardinal praises Gibson's 'The Passion' | "Anti-Semitism, like all forms of racism, distorts the truth by putting an entire race in a bad light. This film does nothing of the kind," Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos said in Thursday's La Stampa newspaper (Associated Press)
  
  
• The Gospel of John: Let he who is without sin … | Donald Akenson's harangue against Garth Drabinsky for his cinematic version of the Gospel of John, abetted by the demeaning caricature of Mr. Drabinsky that accompanied the article in these pages Wednesday, merits a response (Bruce Waltke, The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
  
  
• This fall, the big screen spotlights religion | 'Luther,' which debuts Sept. 26, is one of several new films that focus on religion or question institutional authority (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Chapel bedeviled by 'Blair Witch' | Mischief by horror film's fans plagues Md. town, church (The Washington Post)
  
  

Music:

• Exhibit celebrates history of church and gospel music | You can't understand African-American history without understanding the role the black church and gospel music have played (Dawn Turner Trice, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Intense singing, intense fashion | Evanescence, from Arkansas, has become one of the country's most popular bands by mixing nu-metal guitar riffs with high, airy vocals, adding lyrics that turn love and religion into a series of pop-psychology analogies (The New York Times)
  
  
• Local ministers weigh in on hymns | A new exhibit of the Top 10 Hymns of all time recently opened at Christus Gardens in Gatlinburg, Tenn., a leading non-denominational religious attraction in this East Tennessee tourist mecca (Selma Times-Journal)
  
  
• Powerful 'Superstar' revival rocks center | "Superstar" is a super show (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Life ethics:

• The face of the partial-birth debate | Moderates and conservatives have worked for almost a decade to put a stop to this procedure. There is neither medical reason nor moral justification for further delay. (Editorial, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Ban nears on partial-birth abortion | The Senate cleared a key hurdle and sent the legislation to be finalized in a conference with the House (The Washington Times)
  
  

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