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• The gospel according to Stephen Baldwin | An interview with "the Unusual Suspect" (ScrippsNews)
  
  
• City pastor faces divorce over infidelity | Ms Joan Ndikirya Makumbi, wife to Pastor Patrick Makumbi of Victory Christian Church in Ndeeba, is accusing her husband of having extra-marital affairs, domestic violence and denying her sex since 2000 (The Monitor, Uganda)
  
  

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Books & magazines:

• A new journal of religion | Students at the U. of Virginia are writing and editing a new journal about scriptural reasoning, an expanding practice that aims to find commonality within the Abrahamic traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• 'John's Story' kicks off 'The Jesus Chronicles' | Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins are taking readers back to early Christianity with The Jesus Chronicles. The four-book series focuses on the writers of the Gospels. The first, John's Story: The Last Eyewitness, hits stores Tuesday (USA Today)
  
  

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Media and entertainment:

• God gets the boot at ABC | Disney-owned ABC has pulled the plug on a church's "God Gives Hope" advertising campaign, saying the message violates its advertising guidelines (Bible Belt Blogger/Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.)
  
  
• Fans say pressure has eased NBC edits of 'VeggieTales' | There's less editing than originally feared (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Religious experience | Distribs learning boundaries of faith (Variety)
  
  
• Meacham, Quinn launch religion feature | More than 50 prominent religious leaders, scholars and activists will participate in On Faith, an online discussion of religion and its impact (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Also: New collaborative, blog-like religion platform "On Faith" From Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (Editor & Publisher)
  
  
• Too idle to read the Bible? It's in a blog | Reuters looks at David Plotz's "Blogging the Bible" feature at Slate (Reuters)
  
  
• Stations want a piece of successful Christian radio duo's show | For a contemporary Christian-format radio station to do well in the ratings against all the other secular pop, rock and country formats on the dial is remarkable (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  
• Christian musician on road less taken | Song lyrics include life's good things, as well as heaven's (South Bend Tribune, Ind.)
  
  

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Other stories of interest:

• Death sentence for three Protestant leaders upheld | They have been convicted of murder and theft but their lawyers claim they were condemned without proof and on the basis of "confessions" extracted under torture. Most probably they will be executed in mid-December to prevent the Supreme Court from reviewing their case (AsiaNews.it)
  
  
• Heard on the Street: Buyout firms eye ServiceMaster | Private-Equity firms are circling ServiceMaster Co., a $3.2 billion company that has weaved a religion-based business ethos through its home-services outlets (The Wall Street Journal, via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• National day of prayer called for rain | Christian church leaders will pray for rain in a bid to help drought-affected Australian farmers (The Australian)
  
  
• Religious observance may keep older people healthy | A new study adds to mounting evidence that older people who regularly attend religious services are healthier than those who don't (Reuters)
  
  
• Icon collector opens museum | American businessman Gordon Lankton recently opened the Museum of Russian Icons, which displays 110 of the 270 icons he's collected (Associated Press)
  
  
• My half-year of hell with Christian fundamentalists | When Polish student Michael Gromek, 19, went to America on a student exchange, he found himself trapped in a host family of Christian fundamentalists. What followed was a six-month hell of dawn church visits and sex education talks as his new family tried to banish the devil from his soul. Here's his story (Der Spiegel, Germany)
  
  
• Death of the death of God | Not only has religion risen from its grave, it has been working out (Danny Katz, The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  

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