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History:

• The Miss Stone Affair: A hostage crisis in Macedonia | An American missionary spinster and a beautiful Bulgarian woman (who turns out to be pregnant) are kidnapped in the rugged mountains of Macedonia and held for ransom by bandit-revolutionaries (The New York Times Book Review)
  
  
• Earlier: Christian History Corner: The Day the Ransoming Began | A gripping new book details the first American missionary hostage crisis, over 100 years ago (Christianity Today, May 23, 2003)
  
  
• John Winthrop: The Puritan dilemma | We have lost touch with our Puritan forebears. We have forgotten, in our giddy and disrespectful era, how wretched it must have been to live with them (The New York Times Book Review)
  
  
• Bible track | George Rosie reviews Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmid MacCulloch (The Sunday Herald, Glasgow)
  
  

More books:

• No end in sight for 'Left Behind' | Will Soon and Babylon Rising confuse Left Behind fans? (New York Daily News)
  
  
• Beat of a different drummer | Mark Curtis Anderson captures the rugged tug of war of his youth—between sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and the threat of damnation or the promise of salvation—in a heartfelt, funny and offbeat memoir, Jesus Sound Explosion (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  
• 'Rumors' about people who say they're 'spiritual but not religious' | Yancey's latest isn't directed at Christians, but toward those who are in what he calls "the borderlands of belief" (The Tennessean, Nashville)
  
  
• Decoding the subtleties of best-selling 'Da Vinci' | The early Christians opposed paganism in all forms, but the mother goddess cannot be lumped in with the rest, because every patriarchy - and not just religious ones - justifies its existence by demeaning women (Joseph F. Kelly, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  

Former CoE bishop and media personality Jim Thompson dies:

• Bishop Jim dies at 67 | Former bishop of Bath and Wells (BBC)
  
  
• The Rt Rev Jim Thompson | The Right Reverend Jim Thompson, who died on the cruise ship Minerva II yesterday aged 67, was Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1991 until 2001 and before that spent 13 arduous years as Bishop of Stepney in the diocese of London; his determinedly liberal views - on homosexual adoption, racism, women priests, and so on - were regularly aired on the Today programme's Thought for the Day slot (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Jim Thompson, former Bishop of Bath and Wells, dies (The Scotsman)
  
  

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