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• Professor's book focuses on religion, bioethics | Hope College professor Allen Verhey's "Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine," is designed to be a tool for clergy, Christian physicians and others faced with medical issues (The Holland Sentinel, Mich.)
  
  
• Deconstructing 'Da Vinci' | "The Da Vinci Code," the best-selling novel that asserts as fact that Jesus Christ had a daughter as well as a wife, has provoked fierce opposition from Protestants and Catholics alike (The Washington Times)
  
  
• One God, three religions | Jack Miles reviews The Monotheists (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Professor maps Christianity's path | OSU researcher Marcus Borg gains notoriety with his books on religion (Statesman Journal, Salem, Ore.)
  
  
• Reflections In Glass | This book is a battle for the soul of Australia's Anglicans, in which the foe is the influential Sydney diocese, often characterised as fundamentalist (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Rewriting the Bible: A heretic's handbook | A review of Killing the Buddha by Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet (The Denver Post)
  
  

American Airlines pilot:

• Captive audience 30,000 feet in the air | Lately, some airlines have been offering an actual song and dance, and a lot of readers responding to last week's column don't appreciate it (Joe Sharkey, The New York Times)
  
  
• Pilot's comments set off alarm bells with readers | Some things airline passengers don't want to hear from the pilot at the controls. "Oops" would be one of them. And apparently religious proselytizing would be another (Susan Paynter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  
• Airline chief apologizes for pilot's evangelical remarks | Gerard J. Arpey, president and CEO of American's parent company, AMR Corp., apologized for the pilot's actions in a letter to the Anti-Defamation League (CNN)
  
  
• Airline CEO apologizes for pilot's talk on religion | 'Thorough investigation' promised; passenger tells of explanation given him (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  

Earthquake, damaging snowstorm in Israel:

• Recent Mideast earthquake endangers church building in Bethlehem | The pastor at one of the most prominent churches in Bethlehem says the building is in danger of collapsing, following last week's earthquake that shook parts of the Middle East (Voice of America)
  
  
• Fears for Bethlehem church after earthquake | Rev Mitri Raheb at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, whose steeple dominates the skyline in the birthplace of Jesus, told Scotland on Sunday parts of the shrine broke off when the quake hit the region on Wednesday, and he fears more may collapse (Scotland on Sunday)
  
  
• Wall of Mugrabi Gate pathway collapses | The section of the Western Wall allocated for women's prayer has been cordoned off and declared temporarily off-limits to worshipers, after sections of a wall on the pathway leading up to the adjacent Mugrabi Gate caved in during a snowstorm early Sunday morning (The Jerusalem Post)
  
  

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