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• In pictures: Palm Sunday | From around the world (BBC)
  
  
• 'Last Supper': The tradition returns | The reenactment at a 151-year-old rural Minnesota church includes attention to diction and a case of the jitters (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  
• Church's statues bend to river rules | Stations of the Cross display will adhere to Chattahoochee laws (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• U.S. churches go 'green' for Palm Sunday | More than 1,000 churches have placed orders for palm fronds from Mexico and Guatemala that are collected in an ecological and sustainable way (The New York Times)
  
  
• Eco-palms send Christian message | The Eco-Palms project pays higher prices for palms harvested by communities practicing sustainable forestry and fair trade (The South Bend Tribune, Ind.)
  
  

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Theology & the Resurrection :

• Jesus lives or Christianity dies | Take Easter away, and we are at best like the first-century Jews, still hoping for redemption to happen but with no sign that it has just yet. And at worst we are back with some kind of paganism -- which is where, ultimately, the denial of resurrection will leave you (N.T. Wright, On Faith)
  
  
• And on the third day … ? | A Somerfield PR officer wanted to tell everyone the true meaning of Easter, until it became clear that she didn't have a clue either (Theo Hobson, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Store gets egg on its face over Christ's Easter 'birth' | Press release claims that the tradition of giving Easter eggs was to celebrate the "birth" of Christ. An amended version changed this to the "rebirth" of Christ. Finally a third press release accepted Church teaching that Easter celebrated the resurrection of Christ (The Times, London)
  
  
• A debate for the millennia: Did Jesus rise from the dead? | The resurrection of Jesus still draws a crowd, even when it's not Easter Sunday (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Easter message: Christ did not die for sin | Jeffrey John attacks penal substitution (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Crucifixion makes God seem like a psychopath, says cleric | One of the country's most controversial clerics was at the centre of a new controversy yesterday after saying that traditional teaching about the Crucifixion was "repulsive" and made God seem like a "psychopath" (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Cross purposes | Penal substitution, the idea that God murdered his son for the salvation of the world, is unbiblical, barbaric and morally indefensible (Giles Fraser, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Rediscovering Mary | Holy Week holy reading. An interview with Frederica Mathewes-Green (National Review Online)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Romero anniversary; Bishops condemn work of Marquette University theologian; Lutheran leader condemns prosperity gospel; and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  
• Missouri's most powerful Baptist takes on the 'emerging church' | Moran decides to escalate his decade-long battle against "moderate" Baptists. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  
• Untangling biblical tales | The Bible is full of smashing stories of derring-do, but how much of it is true? While some believers answer, "Everything, of course," scholars have long been poking around in the historical and archaeological record to determine fact from fiction. Three new paperbacks continue that exploration (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Religion without truth | The truth claims of a religion are not incidental to its identity; they are its identity (Stanley Fish, The New York Times)
  
  

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New Gospels :

• Embracing Judas | A recently translated gospel argues that betraying Jesus was the right thing to do. John Dominic Crossan reviews Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity by Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King (The Washington Post)
  
  

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April (Web-only) 2007, Vol. 51