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5. 'The Da Vinci Code' A positive for Christianity | The only boycott I will support is the boycotting of all other boycotts (Jonathan Morris, Fox News)
   
   

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Books :

1. 'When you pray together … you begin to trust' | An interview with Tony Hall (The Dallas Morning News)
   
   
2. Keeping the faith at arm's length | A weighing of the evidence suggests that the Christianity practiced by most of the founders was lukewarm at best Alan Wolfe reviews The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes, Realistic Visionary by Peter R. Henriques, and American Gospel by Jon Meacham (The New York Times Book Review, different link than in Friday's blog)
   
   
3. N.T. Wright makes an authoritative and elegant case for Christianity | Arlice Davenport reviews Simply Christian (The Wichita Eagle, Kan.)
   
   
4. Age of compassion | An accomplished historian finds empathy at the root of the world's great faiths. Lauren F. Winner reviews The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong (The Washington Post)
   
   
5. Saved! | America gets religion and all hell breaks loose. Melvin Jules Bukiet reviews The Messiah of Morris Avenue by Tony Hendra (The Washington Post)
   
   
6. Mass appeal | Catholics trying to adapt their faith to a complex world are fighting resistance from Rome. R. Scott Appleby reviews A Church in Search of Itself: Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future by Robert Blair Kaiser (The Washington Post)
   
   
7. Religion in the public life | Wesley A. Kort reviews American Gospel by Jon Meacham (Chicago Tribune)
   
   

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Other stories of interest :

1. Evangelicals who 'repent' on HIV | Big Orange County church's ministry draws skepticism (San Francisco Chronicle)
   
   
2. Artifacts of church and state | Medieval wonders unscroll at Boston College (The Boston Globe)
   
   

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