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• Preaching prosperity | Televangelist Joyce Meyer directs people to a God who can fix their all of their earthly problems (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Heeding his call | Feed My Lambs ministry reaches out to preschoolers in poorest neighborhoods (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• For Salvation Army preachers, it's 'soup, soap, and souls' | In the Christian denomination, ministers are majors, and God and after-school pudding go down with equal ease (Daytona Beach News-Journal, Fla.)
  
  

Christian history:

• No historical evidence of Jesus | Bible scholars today know that the Gospels never were historical biographies even though they may appear to be such (Tom Harpur, The Toronto Star)
  
  
• Skeptics may refuse to relent but, yes, there's evidence of Jesus outside the Bible | Did Jesus even exist? The question may seem absurd, but years ago some radicals treated him as an imaginary figure. Today's experts don't take the canard seriously (Omaha World-Herald, Neb.)
  
  
• Biblical or mythical? | Lots of Bible myths are mistaken for gospel truth: We think there's stuff in the Good Book that simply isn't there (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• The do-it-yourself ethical investor | Investors who feel socially responsible mutual funds don't fully reflect their values can build a portfolio of their own (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• God's gift to football | In the beginning, there was the word. And the word was … well, louder than Mark Brunell expected. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Churches sometimes must take stands | Today's ACLU-ist separationists would prefer that Americans forget the central role churches have played in the major political debates of American history (Wheeling News-Register, W.V.)
  
  
• Let's make Cleveland the next 'holy city' | If Iraq can have so many holy cities, surely we can qualify, too (Tom Feran, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Oh.)
  
  
• From Lenin to Jesus and back | Zipping along country roads in a seat-beltless Soviet Zhiguli is the ideal way to explore Lithuania's fascination with sculpture. From crosses lining the highways to a forest of Communist statues and an avant-garde park, these monuments reflect the nation's history and its hope for the future (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
  
  

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