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Music :

• 'Messiah,' a seasonal standard standing strong | It is likely that George Frideric Handel would have been astonished by the enduring success of his "Messiah" (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Christian teen event to bring $3.2M here | 4,000 have signed up so far for the four-day Joshua Revolution (Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y.)
  
  

Spirituality :

• Many happy returns | The belief that our spirit is reborn after death has been held for thousands of years but still fascinates and divides experts in equal measure. Have scientists at the "home" of reincarnation research in the US managed to prove its existence? (BBC)
  
  
• A brief history | Why do end-of-time beliefs endure? (The Economist, U.K.)
  
  
• When not thinking is fundamental | Must one choose between believing and reason? (Keith A. Owens, Metro Times, Detroit)
  
  
• Explaining the hold of religion | Religion is "the expression of real distress and a real protest against it" (Alan Maass, Socialist Worker)
  
  
• 2004: When religion glowed red hot | From the red-state heartland that re-elected President Bush to Mel Gibson's blood-splattered "The Passion of the Christ," 2004 was very red indeed (Religion News Service)
  
  

Other religions :

• Religion Today: The coming Joseph Smith wars | As Smith's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prepares to celebrate the bicentennial year of his birth, the occasion will certainly renew debates over one of America's most important — and wooliest — religious careers (Associated Press)
  
  
• Eye on Eurasia: Russia fears growing sects | The Russian government and leaders of Russia's four "traditional" religions -- Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism -- are combining forces to combat the growing influence of sectarian creeds. But their plans may not have the results that either side of this bargain hopes for (UPI)
  
  
• A crack in the theory | Will a couple of renegade archeologists make us rethink everything we know about Qumran? (The Jerusalem Post)
  
  

More articles of interest:

• The year of the blog | An anti-Christian hit piece lets Newsweek become the latest big media organization to be debunked by the blogosphere (Hugh Hewitt, The Weekly Standard)
  
  
• Dreams go up in smoke for Habitat family of 11 | Farin and Debbie Crone, former Christian missionaries with nine children, were looking forward to spending Christmas in their new home (Associated Press)
  
  
• The struggle is no longer against religion, but within it | For the left not to have stood with Muslims would have been a real betrayal (Seumas Milne, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Iconoclasts turn their fury on Kenya's colonial past | Church elders in Kenya have begun to destroy some of the country's most valuable and historic colonial-era religious imagery after a commission ruled that early Scottish missionaries to East Africa were "probably devil-worshippers" (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Vatican fears Anglican envoy | Britian's next ambassador appointed to the Holy See may end a tradition (The Times, London)
  
  
• The godless, humanist kids are all right | We secular humanists won't be silenced (Adele Horin, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• The naked baby | A postal service controversy (Chuck Colson, Breakpoint)
  
  
• At Miss Cass pageant, disabled contestants bask in the spotlight | Knock-knock jokes, songs and a tiara in Detroit; 'They live for this day' (The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Mbale attributes AIDS to witchcraft | A report of a survey carried out by The Aids Support Organisation (Taso) of Mbale branch early this year, says 8.3 per cent of the 525 respondents interviewed said HIV/Aids is a result of witchcraft (The Monitor, Kampala, Uganda)
  
  

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