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NEWS ABOUT: gospel

gospel stories: 6 news summaries

Pageant Wants Its Money Back for Prejean's Implants

Miss California officials quote scripture right back at stripped winner

Oct 19, 09 6:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Miss California pageant wants back the money it ponied up for Carrie Prejean to get breast implants, countering her lawsuit with one of its own. Prejean alleges she was a victim of, among other things, religious discrimination in being stripped of her crown after taking an anti-gay-marriage stance; the... More »

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entertainment • beauty pageant • breast implants • lawsuit • gospel • Carrie Prejean • Miss California

 Young Gospel Singer
 Killed in Tampa

Levi Dixon Jr. may have been mistaken for someone else: family

Jul 28, 08 1:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - A promising 17-year-old gospel singer was shot to death early yesterday morning in West Tampa while staying at a friend’s house, the St. Petersburg Times reports. An unknown assailant burst through the door at 4 am and shot Levi Dixon Jr., whom relatives speculate he mistook for someone else.... More »

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music • crime • Tampa • gospel • shooting

The Gospel According to Jefferson

Founding Father cut and pasted his own personal Bible

Jul 6, 08 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thomas Jefferson cut and pasted together his own New Testament, removing everything he refused to believe—like miracles and the resurrection of Jesus, the Los Angeles Times reports. Dubbed the Jefferson Bible, it reflects his deist belief that God created the universe and let it run on its own. But... More »

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Christianity • Bible • miracle • gospel • Jesus Christ • resurrection • Thomas Jefferson • deism

Soundtrack Dylan Covers Score

Remade songs from 'I'm Not There' packed with great impersonations

Oct 31, 07 3:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - In keeping with the movie it supports, the soundtrack for Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There is packed with imitators. Twenty-nine singers cover Dylan tracks on the 34-song tribute, which traces every phase of Dylan’s career—from folk highs to gospel lows—proving each to be “as... More »

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Bob Dylan • Willie Nelson • folk • soundtrack • I'm Not There • gospel • Richie Haven • Stephen Malkmus • music review

Obama Looks
for Gospel Lift

But tour isn't attracting the young believers who fueled his early campaign

Oct 29, 07 7:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's three-city South Carolina gospel tour kicked off over the weekend, with hopes that a little soul would lift his swooning numbers along with spirits. If the goal was, as one local supporter put it, to "get these young folks re-fired up," it wasn't happening at the... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • South Carolina • Donnie McClurkin • gospel • Democratic presidential primaries

Obama Angers Gays With Choice of Gospel Singer

Donnie McClurkin has said homosexuality can be 'cured'

Oct 23, 07 7:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Grammy-winning gospel singer who claims homosexuality can be “cured” is scheduled to perform this weekend at a show organized by Barack Obama's campaign, setting off a political brouhaha in the gay community. Obama’s camp has rejected calls to drop Donnie McClurkin, the Chicago Tribune reports, but the... More »

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Barack Obama • gay rights • Donnie McClurkin • Grammy Awards • gospel

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