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Halloween:

• School says Halloween disrespectful to witches | District bans a planned celebration, calling it a waste of time (ABCNews.com)
• Baker officials hope to ban 'satanic' holiday | Ghosts and goblins, costumed superheroes, even little girls dressed up like Cinderella -- none may be welcome on the streets of Baker next year if some city officials get their way and drive Halloween out of town (The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La.)

Music:

• Agnew avoids the ordinary | Singer who found fame with reworked hymn moves on to new projects (Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.)
• The joys of blind faith | Ben Harper is bringing the gospel into the mainstream (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
• Finding answers for theological questions, to a gospel beat | Robert Wilson gets funky with "The Temptation of St. Anthony," which opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday as part of the Next Wave Festival (The New York Times)
• Can Christianity ever reach accord with rock? | Is there tension and conflict between Third Day's lives as rock stars vs. their fundamental identity as Christians? (Troy Record, N.Y.)

Songs of Praise row:

• Songs of Praise is being constricted into a narrow Anglican mould | Program ought to be a celebration of the rich diversity of spirituality across the United Kingdom (Archie Black, The Scotsman)
• Songs of Praise is out of tune with Kirk, claims minister | Inverness minister launches attack on flagship religion program (The Scotsman)
• Scotland's songs of praise | Those who thought that the soporific strains of Songs of Praise could not possibly arouse dissension will be shaken out of this view by the electrifying letter today from the Rev Archie Black, calling for the program to be axed (Editorial, The Scotsman)

People:

• The banker who does business by the Good Book | Our correspondent talks to Ken Costa about God and governance (The Times, London)
• Osteen shares steps to realizing potential | At first glance, Joel Osteen's new book might be mistaken for secular self-help (The Dallas Morning News)
• Charisma at the Garden | Smiling Christian preacher Joel Osteen cracks the New York market and sells out a live appearance to his TV audience (Newsday)
• Pastor preaching at Garden | Preaching before an arena-size crowd is no big deal for Joel Osteen (The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y.)
• The Lord and the law | When he's not in church, you can find this newly ordained Episcopal priest at his law office (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans)

Books:

• A (graphic) novel approach to getting Christian message out to teens | Robert Luedke says he spent most of his first 40 years wandering in a spiritual desert, looking at accounts of Jesus and Christianity as nice, harmless stories (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
• Failed apocalyptic prophecy by U.S. Millerites had historic impact, book claims | In his Borderland Religion, Simon Fraser University professor Jack Little argues a failed apocalyptic prophecy by the radical and powerful U.S.-based Millerite movement was a watershed moment in Canada's rejection of the fire-and-brimstone religious culture of the U.S. identity (National Post, Canada)

Film & theater:

• Faith issues drive two plays by new troupe in Arlington | Shadows of Light seeks "the intersection of faith, art and the human experience." (The Washington Post)
• T.D. Jakes lets loose | With his film about child sexual abuse, the preacher takes his message nationwide (The Boston Globe)

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