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Unification Church:

1. Sushi and Rev. Moon | How Americans' growing appetite for sushi is helping to support his controversial church (Chicago Tribune)
   
   
2. Church has made inroads | Two decades after serving time in federal prison, Rev. Sun Myung Moon had so effectively worked his way back into the political establishment that some congressmen attended his "coronation" on Capitol Hill (Chicago Tribune)
   
   

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Spirituality:

1. Light at end of the tunnel over near death experiences | Today, new evidence is published that backs the idea that the near-death experience is a biological experience, rather than anything to do with a larger, spiritual dimension, a glimpse of heaven, or the existence of the soul (The Telegraph, London)
   
   
2. Abstract: Does the arousal system contribute to near death experience? | Clinical observations suggest that REM state intrusion contributes to NDE (Neurology)
   
   
3. Modern miracles | Are believers mistaken or do modern miracles really happen? (BBC)
   
   
4. Fallen angel not so satanic: devil's advocate | HenryAngsmar Kelly has an ambitious project, rehabilitating "the most maligned figure in history": the devil (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
   
   
5. Reinventing 'religion' in America | Today, faith is less threatened by the overriding secular forces in the world than by religion. Religion is increasingly becoming the product of its own undoing (Scott M. Korb and Leon A. Morris, The Baltimore Sun)
   
   
6. Wrath of God? No, Governor, it's weather | The governor toured the tornado-crippled communities of West Tennessee last week and clearly was shaken by what he saw. "The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it," Gov. Phil Bredesen told reporters (David Waters, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis)
   
   

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Prayer study:

1. Faith-based medicine | Responsible religious leaders will breathe a sigh of relief at the news that so-called intercessory prayer is medically ineffective (Raymond J. Lawrence, The New York Times)
   
   
2. Does praying accomplish anything? | The importance of "thy will be done" (Martin E. Marty, Chicago Tribune)
   
   

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Jesus:

1. Resurrecting faith | Not all Christians believe in the resurrection of Jesus (The Australian)
   
   
2. The appeal of Jesus himself does not wane | There has been no boundary line where interpretations of Jesus have been attempted. Nor any limit on the public's fascination with him, either. (Reginald Stackhouse, The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
   
   

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Gospel of Judas:

1. Message of love | As Jews prepare to observe Passover and Christians Easter, a new translation of an ancient text counters an anti-Semitic stereotype (Editorial, Houston Chronicle)
   
   
2. Judas, reconsidered | Gnostic texts will not help to explain why Jews did not accept Christianity (Lawrence H. Schiffman, The Jewish Week, New York)
   
   
3. Judas, new and improved | Education is always a wonderful thing, but I worry that National Geographic's venerable reputation will lend a little too much credence to the ancient text now revealed (Reg Henry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
   
   

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Books:

1. 'Da Vinci Code' said to fit conspiracy fixation | Everybody loves a conspiracy (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Now Russian sues Brown over his Da Vinski Code | A Russian art historian has accused Dan Brown of plagiarism in The Da Vinci Code, just four days after a British Court rejected a similar claim (The Times, London)
   
   

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