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• Also: Hornbuckle isn't the only bad pastor out there | Group confronted pastor 12 years ago (Bob Ray Sanders, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
  
  
• Weighty matter: Is religion making us fat? | A new Purdue University study says churches contribute to obesity (Cathleen Falsani, Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  

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Missions and ministry:

• Jackie Mason sues Jews for Jesus over pamphlet | He says the missionary group damaged him by using his name and likeness in a pamphlet (Associated Press)
  
  
• Pakistan clerics order quake aid groups to fire women | Muslim clerics in part of earthquake-hit Pakistani Kashmir have told aid agencies to fire all local women employees or face violent protests, officials and religious leaders said (AFP)
  
  
• Dalai Lama's visit shines spotlight on Mongolia's explosion of faiths | While only a small minority seems to have taken up new faiths like Christianity, the increasingly crowded market of religions is posing a challenge to the traditional authority of Buddhist monks, already crippled by six decades of communist persecution and riven with internal divisions (Associated Press)
  
  

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Media:

• New York man charged with enabling Hezbollah television broadcasts | A budding entrepreneur was charged with providing customers services that included satellite broadcasts of a television station controlled by Hezbollah — a violation of federal law (The New York Times)
  
  
• Also: Hez TV is a bust | Feds nab dish salesman pitching terror channel (New York Daily News)
  
  
• TiVo discusses KidZone with ministers | TiVo is looking to religious leaders to get the word out about a new feature that helps parents control the TV shows their children watch (Associated Press)
  
  
• Film explores spiritual life and sexuality of 'sassy' Saint Teresa | Geraldine Chaplin heads the cast of Teresa: Death and Life, a feature film about one of the great Christian figures (The Times, London)
  
  
• The selling of evangelical Christianity | Larry Ross' A. Larry Ross Communications brings Christian marketing into the twenty-first century (Bill Berkowitz, Bend Weekly, Ore.)
  
  

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Books:

• The rise of Christian Nationalism, and its adherents' strategy to use the courts to further their agenda | John Dean reviews Michelle Goldberg's Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (FindLaw.com)
  
  
• Also: Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism | A review by Alan Gold (The Australian)
  
  
• Author plumbs depths of Christian rock scene | Jeremiah Tucker reviews Andrew Beaujon's Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock (The Joplin Globe, Mo.)
  
  

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