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Kenneth Hagin Jr. will take over duties at Rhema Bible Church, which now has 8,000 members, and Kenneth Hagin Ministries.

(Weblog usually sticks to online sources in compiling the news, but few solid biographical sketches of Hagin are available online. Sources consulted for this obituary include The Dictionary of Charismatic and Pentecostal Movements, IVP's new Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, and Randall Balmer's Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism.)

Must be all that gory death imagery
The next time you go to hear Handel's Messiah, be warned: Apple's iTunes, which sells music online, considers a London Philharmonic Orchestra recording of it "explicit."

"The warning, which appeared when the album's tracks were made available Tuesday but disappeared late Tuesday, was most likely a technical mix-up, though The Messiah does touch on love, violence and death — in a more profound way than, say, most music produced 260 years later," the Associated Press reported.

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