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• Pope given Schumacher's Ferrari steering wheel | Italian carmaker Ferrari gave Pope Benedict the steering wheel to one of their Formula One racing cars on Monday, honouring the man in the driving seat of the Roman Catholic Church (Reuters)

Business:

• Tyson launches faith-friendly campaign | Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale is offering free downloadable prayer booklets on its Web site, part of an overall strategy to appear faith friendly to its workers and customers (Arkansasbusiness.com)
• Major leadership shortage in nonprofit world expected in next two decades | Nearly three-fourths of all nonprofit executives will reach retirement age over the next two decades, and charities will be hard pressed to replace them, according to a new survey (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Film and TV:

• Mel Gibson plans TV miniseries on Holocaust | The project is being developed by the production company of Mel Gibson, whose The Passion of the Christ was assailed by critics as anti-Semitic (The New York Times)
• Heavenly features | Moving into the mainstream, the Christian right tells Hollywood to have a little faith (Village Voice)
• In world of 'Left Behind,' end is weird | Plot reflects conservative Christian interpretation of biblical Book of Revelation (Chicago Tribune)
• Trapped in the closet: Robust rendering of a fantasy classic | Visiting the land of Narnia as a young heathen, I found Lewis's theology an only mildly obtrusive part of the landscape (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice)

Books:

• Two reference works are year's best religion titles | The newly revised third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church and the companion Encyclopedia of Christianity rank as 2005's books of the year in religion (Associated Press)
• A 'Good to Great' second act | Jim Collins's best seller is that rare business book that finds an audience beyond corporations. Now he's got a sequel for organizations not ruled by the bottom line (Newsweek)
• Leaving the dark side | Anne Rice recently finished reading C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" (The Washington Times)
• Is God in the details? | The Archbishop of Canterbury looks backward. Edward Short reviews Why Study the Past? by Rowan Williams (The Weekly Standard)

Other stories of interest:

• Civil rights leader to retire from ministry | The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who worked with the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the fight against segregation, said he will retire from the ministry but will not stop fighting racial injustice (Associated Press)
• Russian Archbishop calls Lord Krishna 'Satan' | Hindus are shocked and outraged to read the views of the Russian Orthodox Church on Lord Krishna, who is revered by over one billion Hindus worldwide as the Supreme Lord, said an ISCKON press statement (Hindustan Times, India)

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