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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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OPINION

 5 Best Songs You 
 Didn't Hear in 2008 

Esquire picks this year's best under-the-radar songs

Dec 11, 08 12:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Test your indie chops, courtesy of Esquire, which rounds up the five best tunes you probably didn’t hear this year:
  • “Jingle Bells,” Julian Koster: There's not a single bell in this holiday classic, just a harrowing singing saw.
  • “One Last Round,” Ron Sexsmith:
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Led Zeppelin • Christmas music • Jesus Christ • commentary • Ron Sexsmith • Elbow • Best of 2008

GLOSSIES

 The Bible's Case 
 for Gay Marriage 

Tome isn't exactly as full of endorsements for 'traditional' marriage as conservatives would have us believe

Dec 8, 08 1:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Listen to opponents of gay marriage cite scripture, and you might believe it is not what Jesus would do. But, Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek, no sensible modern person wants to use the Bible as a “how-to script.” (Polygamy, anyone?) “Why,” Miller asks, “would we... More »

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gay marriage • Newsweek • religion • homosexuality • Bible • Jesus Christ • Proposition 8

John, You Are Forgiven—and You Could Sing

Vatican pardons Lennon for infamous Jesus comment

Nov 22, 08 5:53 PM CST
(Newser) - The Vatican forgave John Lennon today for saying the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, Reuters reports. Calling the 1966 remark "a boast,” the Vatican's newspaper said it was made "by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success." The paper also praised the... More »

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music • Paul McCartney • Rome • Vatican • John Lennon • Beatles • Jesus Christ • Roman Catholic Church

 The Best All-Time Beards 

These guys have the most notable chin hairs in history

Nov 15, 08 6:49 PM CST
(Newser) - To celebrate the public premiere of Charles Darwin's beard (or at least hair from it his great, great grandson found in a small leather box) at the British Natural History Museum, the London Times lists the best all-time chin hairs:
  1. Karl Marx. The collapse of the Soviet Union may
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Charles Darwin • Charles Dickens • Karl Marx • Jesus Christ • beard • facial hair • Rasputin

Ancient Text Casts Doubt on Resurrection

In tablet, scholar sees risen messiah as pre-Jesus theme

Jul 10, 08 2:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new interpretation of a tablet written in 1st century BC questions the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Times of London reports. One biblical scholar says the text conveys the story of an angel telling a dying Jew, killed by Romans 4 years before Christ's birth, that he... More »

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Christianity • religion • Judaism • Bible • Dead Sea • Jesus Christ • resurrection • New Testament

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

Robocop Director Pens Shocking
Jesus Bio

Claims Jesus' dad
was a Roman rapist

Apr 24, 08 5:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, best known for directing films like Robocop, Basic Instinct, and Total Recall, is releasing a biography of Jesus which is bound to spark an angry response, reports AP. The book, which Verhoeven has been working on for 20 years, suggests that Jesus' father was a Roman... More »

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religion • biography • film director • Jesus Christ • Paul Verhoeven

 Pope Hails Easter Conversions 

Benedict XVI demands end to conflicts in Tibet, Middle East

Mar 23, 08 1:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Easter Mass today, hailing the miracle of conversion, "which renews itself even today" before a rain-soaked crowd in St. Peter's Square and calling for an end to hostilities in "Darfur and Somalia, the tormented Middle East, especially the Holy Land, Iraq, Lebanon, and Tibet.... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • St. Peter's Basilica • Rome • Easter • Mass • Tibet • Christians • St. Peter's Square • Jesus Christ • Magdi Allam • Corriere della Sera • urbi et orbi • Holy Land

 Easter Defies Madison Avenue 

Religious holiday's originis too wild to tame into commercialism

Mar 23, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Christmas’ religious meaning is lost in a sea of advertising, parties, and major retail dollars, but Easter has resisted becoming a “consumerist nightmare”—and that’s because its Christian origins demand serious thought, writes James Martin in Slate. While “the Christmas story is easily reduced to pablum,... More »

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advertising • Christianity • religion • Easter • consumerism • holiday • Christmas • commercialism • Jesus Christ • resurrection

Teddy Teacher Spurs UK
to Kill Own Blasphemy Law

House of Lords strikes down statute questioned since Sudan teddy-bear case

Mar 6, 08 2:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Britain's House of Lords voted yesterday to abolish blasphemy laws after an international incident sparked debate over secularism and tradition, the Los Angeles Times reports. With the UK and Sudan at odds in November over the prosecution of a British teacher allowing students to name a teddy bear Mohammad, many... More »

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Islam • Christianity • Sudan • hypocrisy • Britain • blasphemy • teddy bears • Gillian Gibbons • Jesus Christ

Christmas Opens in Bethlehem

Resumed peace talks give holiday tourism a bump to 65K tourists

Dec 16, 07 5:07 PM CST
(Newser) - The lighting of a four-story tree yesterday in Bethlehem kicked off a joyous season of increased tourism, reports the AP, amid a backdrop of resumed Mideast peace talks. Some 65,000 foreigners are expected to visit the West Bank town this season, the AP reports; only 16,000 visited the... More »

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Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • West Bank • Christmas • Bethlehem • Jesus Christ

Romney Slams Huckabee's Ungodly Jabs

Connection of Jesus, devil irks Mormon Republican candidate

Dec 12, 07 3:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Mitt Romney is rebutting Mike Huckabee’s suggestion that Mormons believe Jesus and Satan are brothers, saying Huckabee “is really going too far” by “attacking” his religion. The former Massachusetts governor said it’s “just not the American way” to impugn personal beliefs. Mormon faith does not... More »

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Mitt Romney • Mike Huckabee • Mormon • Satan • Jesus Christ

Hollywood to Film 'Missing Years' of Jesus

Christian groups
blast tale of trips to
India and Tibet

Nov 19, 07 6:52 PM CST
(Newser) - Hollywood is making a new film about the alleged "lost years" of Jesus—an action-adventure tale set in India. "In the film we are looking beyond the canonized gospels to the 'lost' gospels," the producer of Aquarian Gospel tells the Guardian. The film will feature computer animation... More »

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Hollywood • India • Bollywood • Jesus Christ

Evangelicals Seen to Be Softening on Divorce

Christianity Today rethinks issue, stirs pot

Nov 7, 07 2:47 PM CST
(Newser) - A Christianity Today article that reinterprets Jesus Christ’s stance against divorce has sparked anger among evangelicals, Time reports, while also revealing diminished opposition to breaking the marital sacrament. The piece argues that, in a key scripture passage, Jesus might have been giving his opinion on a certain kind of... More »

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divorce • evangelicals • scripture • Christianity Today • divorce rate • Jesus Christ

Jesus 2.0: GodTube Is a Smash With Believers

Site offers networking, user-generated video

Oct 21, 07 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - GodTube, one of the fastest-growing sites on the web, is drawing masses of the Christian faithful to its user-generated videos, social-networking tools and the "GodCaster," which offers live video presentations. It's not a church, the LA Times reports, but a for-profit business backed by a "who's who"... More »

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Islam • Christianity • Judaism • website • GodTube.com • Jesus Christ

Mitt Veils His Mormonism

Disguising a central biographical peg leaves candidate Romney with authenticity problem

Oct 4, 07 5:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - In downplaying his Mormonism, Mitt Romney is a candidate “who seems to have no history, and, as a result, no heart,” argues Newsweek. When Mitt boasts of his “Judeo-Christian tradition” roots, calls Jesus his “personal savior”—not Mormon terms—and says he hasn’t “... More »

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Mitt Romney • Senate • Mormonism • evangelicals • authenticity • Election 2008 • presidential election • Jesus Christ

Rudy Tells Moral Critics: 'Cast the First Stone'

And he leads
among churchgoers

Sep 30, 07 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani has compared critics of his personal life to the biblical villagers Jesus rebuked when he said, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone.” The Republican frontrunner cited the parable in a Christian Broadcasting Network interview, saying those... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • Fred Thompson • conservative • churchgoers • Republican nomination • presidential election • Jesus Christ

Jesus Tomb Claim Stirs
Cries of Heresy

Archaeologist calls it "pimping off the Bible"

Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - A book and documentary produced by Titanic's James Cameron claims to identify the burial place of Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene and a son, Judah. The documentary, which Newsweek calls "a slick and suspenseful narrative," asserts that 10 bone boxes found in 1980 in a first-century burial cave in... More »

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religious right • James Cameron • Tomb of Jesus • Simcha Jacobovici • Lost Tomb of Christ • Bob Schenk • Mary Magdalene • Jo Zias • archaeology • Jesus Christ

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