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Books:

1. Evangelicals and the law | Noah Feldman reviews Jay Sekulow's Witnessing Their Faith: Religious Influence on Supreme Court Justices and Their Opinions (The New Republic)
   
   
2. The new pope, without prejudice | Martin Sieff reviews Michael S. Rose's Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger (The Washington Times)
   
   
3. Opus Dei tackles "Da Vinci Code" image problem | Portrayed in the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code" as a secretive cult willing to murder to defend a fictional 2,000-year-old Catholic cover-up, Opus Dei is promoting its softer side before the movie of the book arrives in May (Reuters)
   
   
4. Should we treat religion as a science? | Is religion a natural phenomenon, like photosynthesis, evolution or belly-button fluff? (The Guardian, London)
   
   

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Bible:

1. Bible stories 'eyewitness accounts' | Leading biblical scholar Richard Bauckham is to use a series of prestigious Scottish theology lectures to make the controversial claim that the Gospels represent eyewitness accounts of historical events (Sunday Herald, Glasgow)
   
   
2. Falling in love with the erotic Song of Solomon | Tiny book in Hebrew Bible seldom addressed from pulpit (Religion News Service)
   
   
3. Also: Sex and the Bible, and you can sing along | "Song of Solomon" is soft-core God porn. Bible erotica. Pious passion. (Cathleen Falsani, Chicago Sun-Times)
   
   

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Spirituality:

1. Pastor feels called to fight demons | Globe-trotting minister Bob Larson has performed 6,000 exorcisms in 20 years (The Toledo Blade, Oh.)
   
   
2. Earlier: Possessed or Obsessed? | Many Christians say they are in need of deliverance but some may be giving demons more than their due (Christianity Today, Aug. 24, 2001)
   
   
3. What has happened to America's Jesus? | I remember when Jesus Christ was about religion (Rob Borsellino, USA Today)
   
   
4. Dussault is praying for a miracle | Cross-country skier is guided by the spirit of a beatified patron of the poor (The Washington Post)
   
   

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Other stories of interest:

1. Evangelical center coming to J'lem | The Jerusalem Municipality has authorized the temporary establishment of an Evangelical Christian center for worship on the Mount of Olives for the benefit of those visiting the Holy Land, according to the city and the organizer (The Jerusalem Post)
   
   
2. Rabbi says Messianic Jews are Christians in disguise | Rabbi Tovia Singer seeks to discredit groups such as Jews for Jesus and Messianic Jews, contending that they deceive people by hiding Christian beliefs behind Jewish terms and symbols (The Toledo Blade, Oh.)
   
   
3. French to test reputed remains of Joan of Arc | A team of experts plans a series of tests to determine whether Joan of Arc's supposed remains — a rib bone and some skin — may indeed have belonged to the 15th-century French heroine burned at the stake after a trial for heresy (Associated Press, via Toronto Star)
   
   

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