September 2006

9*29 • Curious review of the day: Salvation army. Jesus is my co-pilot: two new books hit the road with evangelicals (Village Voice; photo of Abbie Jean Short and Kayla Knasel at the Cornerstone Rock Festival by Justin Lane from Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement)
• Amy Lee has been cavorting with wolves. Very big wolves. The Evanescence frontwoman is playing Little Red Riding Hood, the perfect role for the gothrock goddess. (News.com)
• A sacred sacrifice: Fasting helps to give us a true accounting of the soul. (Wall Street Journal)
• 'Hanging' tough: After tasting multiplatinum success, then hardships, rock band Lifehouse keeps rockin' away (Monterey Herald)
• Appeasement at the opera: Mozart falls victim to fear of Muslim rage. (Wall Street Journal)
• Films find heart in Africa (USA Today)
• Cat Power, now sober, dazzles audiences (SF Chronicle)
• Body of art (Chicago Tribune)
• Early Dylan recording to be sold: A tape featuring four songs by a teenage Bob Dylan could fetch up to $100,000 when it is sold at auction in Dallas next month. (BBC)
• God is back! A new study reveals the patterns of religious belief in America by Mark D. Tooley (Weekly Standard)
• Teens' t-shirts make educators squirm: Suggestive messages challenge dress codes (Washington Post)
• School's not out for Alice: Cooper, a student of rock 'n' roll, goes to the airwaves to educate listeners (Lexington Herald Leader)
• Hangin' with Mr. Cooper: Theatrical rock legend will open for Rolling Stones (Louisville Courier Journal)
• Alice Cooper: Mr. Nice Guy likes golf and daddying (News-Democrat)
• Lee Rocker revels in old rockabilly (Deseret News)

9*27 • If you are wanting to purchase the U2-Green Day recording of "The Saints Are Coming" featured on Monday Night Football you can click HERE
• Moms find spiritual friends in Faith Club (USA Today)
• The ballad of Big Mike: Looking for the next Anti-Lawrence Taylor (NY Times)
• Holy fools, detached in spasms of universal ecstasy and despair (NY Times)
• More university students call for organic, 'sustainable' food (USA Today)
• Serendipitous connections in the city of separate lives: “Six Degrees,” the latest series from J. J. Abrams, which begins tonight on ABC, is a religious drama, a story of a half-dozen strangers who find themselves in an enchanted network, as if chosen. This is an extremely reverent show. Dare we call that one degree God? (NY Times)
• MySpace launches voter-registration drive (USA Today)
• The Fray donates to Denver Public Schools (Denver Business Journal)
• Embedded with God's young recruits: A pair of new books examine the Evangelical youth movement by Naomi Schaefer Riley (Wall Street Journal)
• 9 lives and counting: Cat Power sobers up. After climbing out of a dark pit, Chan Marshall is receiving critical praise for her concerts but still needs antidepressants to get by. (NY Times)
• Marriage gap could sway elections (USA Today)
• 'Fertility gap' helps explain political divide (USA Today)
• Dueling Southern Baptist groups angle to speak for conservative 'young leaders' (ABP)
• America's team? Steelers most popular, according to Harris poll (Pittsburgh Business Journal) Despite my beloved Oakland Raiders looking lost on the field, they are #9 in national popularity -- #3 in merchandise (San Jose Business Journal)
• Through lens in Darfur, 'I was a witness to genocide' (USA Today)
• A star trying to hide in plain sight: Jack White is a regular guy (NY Times)
• Cruelty and complicity are king in 'Scotland.' The Oscar buzz for Forest Whitaker's performance as the barbaric, but charasmatic Ugandan leader Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland is already reaching fever pitch (USA Today)


9*26 • How can you not be a Saints fan? Saints march back home to rocking Superdome, blast Falcons 23-3 (USA Today)
• Superdome reopens to first post-Katrina NFL game (USA Today)
• In search of inspiration: ‘Gridiron Gang' reflects a winning formula: a sports story with an uplifting message. What this really shows, though, is America's yearning for heroes and underdogs who conquer adversity by Michael Medved (USA Today)
• The Pope's Divisions: Benedict XVI promotes "interfaith" dialogue. Muslims and Christians need it. (Wall Street Journal)
• Do thin models warp girls' body image? Even the fashion industry concedes that gaunt is not good. But can an unhealthy trend be reversed? (USA Today)
• AIDS video displays 'Power of One' efforts. Documentary of church's visit to Kenya shows hope, draws Emmy Award. (Topics)
• Jerry Lee Lewis is 'Last Man Standing' (USA Today)
• 'Redneck' is a word of pride for Gretchen Wilson (Houston Chronicle)
• Painting a new image of tattooing: Studio 13 tattooist says “Straight Edgers” are bucking stereotypes. (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel)
• "I hated Christianity": Sara Groves interviews bluesman Jonny Lang (Christianity Today)
• Mel Gibson criticizes Iraq war (USA Today)
• Rising from the ruins: The Edge and fellow musicians jump on the bandwagon to help restore New Orleans' music scene (Toronto Sun)
• The rabbit habit: Beyond bunny kitsch by Agnieszka Tennant (Books & Culture)
• 'Girls Gone Wild' CEO pleads guilty (USA Today)
• Review: Solomon Burke a `Nashville' Cat (SF Chronicle)
• Bono speaks out against humanitarian crisis in Darfur: The U2 lead singer is a long-time supporter of charity efforts and in 2005 he played a fundamental role in organising Live 8, a series of worldwide concerts which sought to raise the profile of the world's poverty problems. (Christianity Today)
• Reality puts the horror in this tale of addiction (USA Today)

9*25 • Jonny Lang's Turn Around (PopMatters)
• 'U2byU2': A portrait by the artists (USA Today)
• Meet my 5,000 new best pals: Does 'friending' on a social site make those relationships real? (USA Today)
• Lessons from a Punker Ph.D. Don't call my correspondence with Bad Religion's Greg Graffin a debate by Preston Jones (Christianity Today)
• Darfur's need for help can be seen in refugees' eyes by Mia Farrow (USA Today)
• Lee distances Evanescence from Christian image (Yahoo)
• The mystery of sexual orientation by Julie Lyons (Dallas Observer)
• Julie Lyons is one brave woman by Rod Dreher (Dallas Morning News)
• Rock of faith: Christian bands now a crossover miracle (NY Post)
• Enough apologies: Instead of apologizing in the face of Muslim anger, the West should unite to support free speech and condemn unprovoked attacks on churches, embassies and elderly nuns by Anne Applebaum (Washington Post)
• Pope posed tough questions that the world must answer by George Weigel (USA Today)
• Switchfoot Surfing USA. Drummer Chad Butler talks about the rhythm of the waves, annoying theme songs, and Mennen deodorant. (IGN)
• Nelly gets Moses tattoo (Daily India)
• Fox to offer films for Christian viewers (USA Today)
• Taking a stiletto to D.C.'s drab image: A Sensible-Pumps Town Develops Taste for Manolo and Jimmy (Washington Post)
• Singer Amy Grant gets Hollywood star (USA Today)
• God's boot camp? film on kids' religious experience creates a furor, divides Christians (LA Times)
• Romney rides high: A Mormon from Massachusetts wows social conservatives (Wall Street Journal)
• Edun's One T-shirt message plus Bono add up in Chicago (Chicago Tribune)
• Cat Power comfortable in her own skin again: Marshall's life had become a train wreck. Sober songstress ponders family life (NY Times)
• Book shows youth can like punk, religion too (Canton Repository)
• Axis denied: Willow Creek ends "church-within-church" for 20-somethings. (Christianity Today)
• Global dating: A single girl gives it a try by Dana White (Wall Street Journal)

9*19 • A review of Steve Turner's The Gospel According to the Beatles by Andrew Careaga (Bloggedy Blog)
• Mommy has a tattoo: All kinds of women are marking life's passages with body art, sometimes before and sometimes after motherhood (Miami Herald)
• Do you have a tattoo, Mommy? Do your kids know? What do they think? (Atlanta Journal & Constitution)
• Benedict the Brave: The pope said things Muslims need to hear about faith and reason (Wall Street Journal)
• The Pope's speech: Proving his point (BreakPoint with Chuck Colson)
• How then shall we politick? Michael Gerson, recently resigned Bush speechwriter and adviser, on how evangelicals should comport themselves in the public square. (Christianity Today)
• U2 on tour--in their own words: In this exclusive book extract, join Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr on the epic Zooropa tour as Bono meets Sinatra, Adam collapses and the band go wild in Tokyo (Times)
• 10 great places to get into the guitar groove (USA Today)
• Once upon a time in Dublin: 30 years ago four schoolboys in Dublin decided to form a band. The fact that most of them could'nt play a note didn't hold them back: a spark ignited and the U2 family was born. Here, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr tell the story of how the world's biggest band began (Times)
• Unfinished Tolkien work to be published (USA Today)
• Singing with gritty praise for God (NY Times)
• Blue Like Jazz mirrors debate about direction of Christianity (APB News)
• Giving the devil his due: Were history's baddest bad guys possessed by Satan? (Hartford Courant)
• Designer/mom hat fits Gwen Stefani to a T. She juggles Fashion Week and a baby, but ‘it's worth it' (USA Today)
• Andrew Beaujon, music journalist and author of Body Piercing Saved My Life, discusses the Christian music industry and the culture that birthed it (Busted Halo) Click HERE for part 2.
• It's not in the seeing -- it's in the believing by Cathleen Falsani (Chicago Sun Times)
• Johansson: 'I feel lucky to have what I've got' (USA Today)
• Holy Moses -- The Getty's latest collection puts a Christian perspective on the leader, lawgiver and Sinai climber (Jewish Journal)
• Frankly speaking, haute dogs go (USA Today)
• Lang turns inspirational on new album (Billboard)

9*18 • I was reminded that we had not provided a way for you to hear excerpts of the fascinating Bill Hybels interview with Bono at the Willow Creek Leadership Conference. Sorry about that. Click HERE to do so.
• Bono offers clothing with a conscience: Line to provide employment in developing areas (MSNBC)
• Bono, wife tee off here on AIDS in Africa (Chicago Sun Times)
• One Bono for One Campaign to wipe out poverty: Singer and wife looking to inspire social consciousness (CBS)
• Skateboard ministry. Price of admission to church's skate park: Listening to the sermon during water break (Washington Post)
• Leigh Nash- Colored by the way I feel about God (Christianity Today)
• How Britain is turning Christianity into a crime by Melanie Phillips (Daily Mail)
• Meet the new evangelicals. Is a new generation of 'kinder, gentler' leaders suddenly putting the religious right in political play? by Mark Pinsky (LA Times)
• Stephen Baldwin on his new role: a born-again. Following his older brothers, he broke into Hollywood. But in his new book, ‘The Unusual Suspect,’ the actor writes about why he turned to Jesus (MSNBC)
• U2's Bono brings fight against AIDS, poverty to Chicago (Tribune)
• Braff tacks: Zach Braff is only 31 years old, but he already has a string of accomplishments almost anyone in Hollywood might envy. (Washington Times)
• Elvis Presley: An intimate look at ‘the king.’ In his memoir, ‘Me and a Guy Named Elvis,’ Jerry Schilling shares moments he spent with the man he considered his best friend. Read an excerpt (MSNBC)
• Jerry Lee's 'Still Standing' (AP)
• For shame? Why Christians should welcome, rather than stigmatize, unwed mothers and their children by Amy Laura Hall (Christianity Today)
• Pope meant no insult to Islam, Vatican says (USA Today)
• Stefani tends to her L.A.M.B. at Fashion Week (USA Today)
• Bob Marley ‘catches fire’ early in life. A new biography examines the inspirations of reggae legend Bob Marley in his youth. Read an excerpt (MSNBC)
• Sheryl Crow gets her act, life together (USA Today)
• Sports films will score big with families (USA Today)
• Stavesacre interview (HM)
• Warren Bolster, 59; surfing and skateboarding photographer, dies (Orlando Sentinel)
• 'Freaking' inspires dance ban (OC Register)
• Action sports up-and-comers. Three Orange County companies just might have the 'mojo' to break through in the competitive surf and skate market. (OC Register)
• Religion and politics: Former Sen. John C. Danforth (Newsweek)
• Passa Passa street parties pacify Kingston's toughest: A sexually charged party craze is changing the image of one of Kington's most notorious neighborhoods. (Miami Herald)
• Bush honors Thelonius Monk Institute (Miami Herald)
• Bewitched by the fire: First captivated at Burning Man, newcomers now spin their own poi. It's a traditional practice -- set aflame. (LA Times)
• Models' skinniness can't be regulated: French fashion official (Breitbart)
• Pressure mounts for 'ban' on zero size models (This is London)
• Chick lit: Sex, shoes -- and substance (CNN)
• Germans reconsider religion: Pope Benedict XVI's challenge to secularism meets with receptivity during his German visit. (CS Monitor)


9*14 • Rachael Ray keeps her sunny side up: Food star serves big scoops of reality on new talk show (USA Today)
• Being Rachael Ray: How cool is that? (NY Times)
• Does God want you to be rich? (CNN)
• Prayer and parties: Strip District building morphs from nightclub to church each weekend (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
• The Rev. Albert Walker, a Pentecostal preacher and folk artist, dies (Houston Chronicle)
• Sliced and diced 'Veggie Tales' (Washington Times)
• How mad is Mad Mel? Waiting for 'Apocalypto'(NY Times)
• Ain't that Americana: The American Music Conference cast an ever widening net -- musically and politically (Nashville Scene)
• Age enhances myth of Route 66
Once-beaten path oozes earthy-sweet history, nostalgia (Daily Bulletin)
• Who’s this guy Dylan who’s borrowing lines from Henry Timrod? (NY Times)
• God is green: Matthew Scully reviews E.O. Wilson's The Creation (NY Times)
• Nut job funeral protesters say laws can't silence them: They say death of troops are God's punishment for U.S. tolerance of gays (USA Today)
• Coltrane 101: Echoes of a giant (NY Times)
• U2, Green Day are coming to the Superdome (USA Today)
• Decoding MySpace: It's the coolest hangout space for teens-but parents might be surprised at what their kids do there. Here's how to help keep them safe online (US News & World Report)
• Kristin Chenoweth returning to Broadway (USA Today)
• God rock lures Universal (Guardian)
• "Jesus Camp" documentary stays off beaten path (Reuters)
• The surprising message behind "God is love." Benedict XVI's first encyclical sets the tone for his pontificate--and may raise eyebrows among liberal and conservatives alike by Rocco Palmo (BeliefNet)
• The gospel according to Rocco: Just who is the mysterious scribe behind Whispers in the Loggia, the controversial blog that Catholic power brokers can’t seem to get enough of? (Busted Halo)
• Part 2 of the Rocco Palmo interview (Busted Halo)
• Part 3 of the Rocco Palmo interview (Busted Halo)
• In music--and God--they trust. Sin-free Gospel Night dance concerts are big draw in city known for its earthy Carnival (Chicago Tribune)
• A testament for Trekkies: A preacher has decided to boldly go where no cleric has gone before by writing the gospel according to Star Trek. (Times)
• Madonna to defy Russia church plea to tone down act (Reuters)


9*12• "Mr. Clean" Ryan Howard comes into power: Phillies' kid slugger swinging away. "The only juicing Ryan has ever done is apple or orange." (USA Today)
• View of God can predict values, politics (USA Today)
• A tale of two utopias: Jules Verne sans Captain Nemo. (Books & Culture)
• Q&A: Evanescence`s Amy Lee. "Can we please skip the Christian thing? I`m so over it. It's the lamest thing. I fought that from the beginning; I never wanted to be associated with it. It was a Ben thing. It`s over. It`s a new day." (Monsters & Critics)
• The Fray rock out on tour (News.Au)
• Unpredictable Bob Dylan finally softens his public image (Houston Chronicle)
• Raconteurs tell it like it is: Jack White and his band of rock-loving friends discover a new way to put their ever-changing creative talents to good use (Houston Chronicle)
• Despair not: There is something worse than misery and death by Stephen L. Carter (Christianity Today)
• Former NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham is carrying a message from Jesus Christ (Las Vegas Sun)
• Nation marks lives lost and signs of healing (NY Times)
• America is a nation of believers, study finds: Nearly 92 percent believe in God or a higher power; four images emerge (MSNBC)
• Pope assails secularism, adding note on jihad (NY Times)
• Espresso’s new wave hits town (NY Times)

9*11• The faith of Smokey Robinson (Inspire)
• Solidarity:Our first duty is to stand together against bin Ladenism by Christopher Hitchens (Wall Street Journal)
• Religious affliation underestimated in U.S., study shows. New research challenges previous religious demographic data (Washington Post)
• Make sure that you check out Bill Power's Urban Achiever Show (Google)
• Evangelical author puts progressive spin on traditional faith (Washington Post)
• For singer Gretchen Wilson, 'redneck' is a word of pride (The Hub)
• Kasey Chambers' "Carnival" takes risks (AP)
• Fergie admits drugs shame! Despite her shady past, Stacy Ferguson, singer with the Black Eyed Peas, is not afraid of going solo. (Guardian)
• Finding & seeking: Born in affluence, the baby boomers were driven to ask Big Questions about fulfillment and the meaning of life. How their legacy has changed us (Newsweek)
• Pope stresses Gospel over giving (Washington Times)
• Mayer drops the cute act to craft careful 'Continuum' (USA Today)
• Dylan becomes an icon for modern times - 30 years on (Times)
• Bob Dylan, always inscrutable, opens up (AP)
• Did Jack Bauer replace James Bond? The 9/11 attacks have more nuanced effects on pop culture than the Cold War or Vietnam. (LA Times)
• 'Dylan Encyclopedia' author to give crash course on folk singer's life (Daily Texan)
• U2 back in the studio with Rick Rubin, Green Day (Billboard)
• Episcopal bishops hit 'inappropriate' speech (Washington Times)
• Body sprays, driving teachers crazier than girls (USA Today)
• Drug use rises in 50s, dips among teens (USA Today)
• Gretchen Wilson is a true-blue redneck (Denver Post)
• Home is where the farm is (USA Today)
• Theology for an age of terror: Augustine's words after the 'barbarian' destruction of rome have a remarkably contemporary ring by Timothy George (Christianity Today)
• Texas band Flyleaf rejects 'novelty' tag (Flint Journal)
• ABC's Twisted 'Path to 9/11' by Tom Shales (Washington Post)
• Philosophy rocks: No Longer Strangers churns out rock numbers laced with doses of practical spirituality (Pune Newsline)
• "Good Monsters" delivers good music, message (Stars and Stripes)
• A popular strategy for church growth splits congregants. Across U.S., members divide on making sermons, music more 'Purpose-Driven' (Wall Street Journal)
• WSJ raises criticisms about ‘Purpose-Driven’ model (Baptist Press)



9*8 • Where two or more are gathered: One's movement to end world poverty by Jenny Eaton Dyer (BreakPoint)
• More Americans are inking up, but can tattoos cost you a job? (Waco Tribune)
• Evangelicals find a friend in Catholic author (Explorer)
• It's not easy being (Al) Green (Journal)
• Toby Keith's first step on film stage (USA Today)
• More Mr. Nice Guy: A hard-rock guitarist with a soft spot for spiders rebounds from the metal meltdown of the 1990s. (OC Register)
• Fact or fiction? On YouTube, we'll never know. (Wall Street Journal)
• That’s not Bob Dylan, that’s Cate Blanchett, baby! (Rolling Stone)
• New faces of Glam gloss up for a cause: A rock legend, a rapper, a burlesque babe and Elvis Presley's daughter are the newest faces of MAC makeup's Viva Glam lipstick and lip gloss line, which raises money to help people who are living with HIV/AIDS (USA Today)
• The faith of Smokey Robinson (Inspire)
• Sorry, Jessica: Billboard's #1 belongs to Bob Dylan (MTV)
• Mixing God and politics: Where do Americans really stand? (First Amendment Center)
• Lie back and think of Jesus: After seven decades as an atheist, author Fay Weldon has found God. "The soul is the essential part of us, the inner recognisable core which stays the same while the body which ties us down changes." (Guardian)
• Anything goes: The Presbyterian Church gets into the 9/11 conspiracy theory business (Wall Street Journal)
• Alice Cooper is living proof of shock's value (Paramus Post)
• Of God and men (Boston Globe)
• Kitna's a man of faith: Lions quarterback gains respect from his new teammates for not trying to hide his religious beliefs. (Detroit News)
• A call to faith: A Baptist childhood and changing times helped shape Rick Warren's emerging religious style (OC Register)
• Still called by faith to the phone booth: As companies cut back, Amish and Mennonites are building their own (Washington Post)
• The princess treatment: Sweet Sixteen parties have evolved into ego-feeding extravaganzas (Wall Street Journal)
• This mommy track may go somewhere: Some companies offer a chance to advance on a schedule that allows more time at home. (LA Times)
• Faith grows as market force: Funds that choose their investments with the view that companies' products or practices should be in accord with religious or moral beliefs are attracting clients, and rewarding them (Chicago Tribune)
• Kentucky churches packed after jet crash (AP)
• All over town, focus is on loss of loved ones (Lexington Herald Leader)
• Australia: Christian college prays for family of Steve Irwin (Inspire)

9*7• Flyleaf: It's a match made in heaven. Christian band Flyleaf is clean, sober and rocking with some heavy hitters (Newsday)
• Dylan earns first No. 1 album since 1976 (Billboard)
• A whoppin' good time from Dylan (Plain Dealer)
• Switchfoot gets 'Dirty' for sixth studio album (Billboard)
• Religion on the road: Christian website offers sermons, music for IPods (Courant)
• Riding with legends: New Robert Randolph album can wait while sharing stage with guitar heroes (Rocky Mountain News)
• The new missions generation: Two centuries after Haystack, college students remain excited about missions—but with fundamentally different assumptions. (Christianity Today)
• Barkley addresses politics, religion (AP)
• Purpose-Driven AIDS prevention: It’s as simple as ABC by Kathryn Jean Lopez (National Review)
• Switchfoot slipping on tour boots again as Gravity approaches (MTV)

9*6• Young and pious: A rock & roll story. Photojournalist Stephanie Keith goes inside the Christian rock subculture and finds the strange marriage of rock and rapture (Rolling Stone)
• Otherworldly Gregorian chants calling once again: A longtime discussion crescendos after the pope's recent comment about traditional music (LA Times)
• Parsing the riddles of Bob Dylan's 'Modern Times' (Washington Post)
• We watched Andre Agassi grow: The punk kid who reinvigorated professional tennis. (Wall Street Journal)
• Left and Christian Right take lumps in poll: Liberals go too far to exclude religion from public life while conservatives overreach in imposing their values, the survey finds. (LA Times)
• Nude teens test limits in Vermont town (AP)
• Humans 'hardwired for religion' (Guardian)
• Intimate confessions pour out on church’s web site (NY Times)
• Sufjan preps Christmas box set (Pitchfork)
• 'Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues' (American Statesman)
• Making reggae kosher (Seattle Times)
• Meeting of science and spirit by Jen Waters (Washington Times)
• It wasn't really about whiskey: A compelling and entertaining but also deeply flawed account of an episode in early American history. Al Zambone reviews The Whiskey Rebellion by William Hogeland (Books & Culture)
• 'This film is not yet rated': Film excoriates a rating system that seemingly condones violence and condemns sex (LA Times)
• Of the spirit and for the spirit (Aspen Times)
• Dylan: changin' with the times (CS Monitor)
• Church replicates temple from Bible: Reenactments also held at tabernacle (Detroit Free Press)
• Sufjan Stevens: Behind the music (Relevant)
• Between wars: An interview with the Flaming Lips. Preparing to tour in support of At War With the Mystics, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne discusses politics, drugs and divine intervention (PopMatters)
• Web sites hold ways to seek, offer forgiveness by Cathleen Falsani (Chicago Sun Times)
• LL Cool J working with 50 Cent on new album (Billboard)
• Rockabilly singer Gene Simmons dies (Billboard)

9*5 • Aaron Neville remembers pre-Katrina New Orleans (Fox)
• Stray gems: Some Dylan albums anyone would take to a desert island. Others have gotten lost in the tide. Here’s a guide to some high spots between the masterpieces (Rolling Stone)
• No "God spot" in the human brain (LiveScience)
• A film of one's own: “I was raised by Catholic parents, with a profound awareness and reverence for God,” says actress Vera Farmiga. “And ingrained in me is the idea of service with a glad heart with the talent you were given. We all have the ability to serve God and each other with our talents. I choose roles with that objective. I really think that’s why I act. I’ve never sought out parts where you float around in beautiful dresses and have no character.” (NY Times)
• Aspiring 'Biotown' gets visit from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (AP)
• Pope's debate group to publish evolution talks (Scientific American)
• Father, Son and Holy Rift: For Pastor Chuck Smith, the big issues are undebatable. For Chuck Smith Jr., also a pastor, it's not so crystal clear. Something had to give(LA Times)
• Rebuilding his movie career: "Gridiron Gang" director Phil Joanou knows about second chances. (LA Times)
• The man who fed the world: How a poor Iowa farm boy came to be one of humanity's greatest benefactors. (Wall Street Journal)
• The new naysayers: In the midst of religious revival, three scholars argue that atheism is smarter (MSNBC)
• Women shrug off the tattoo taboo (Lawrence Journal World)
• Bar none (NY Times)
• Katrina missions put faith into action (Akron Beacon Journal)
• Worship with art: Church has vision for visual (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
• The gospel truth on faith-based myths (The Virginian-Pilot)
• No booze, no groping and the youngsters love it (Sydney Morning Herald)
• For Sin City, the antidote (LA Times)
• Seeking entry-level prophet: Burning bush and tablets not required (NY Times)
• For 56 years, battling evils of Hollywood with prayer (NY Times)

9*1 • The storm still rages: A ground-zero report on the triumphs and struggles of New Orleans musicians one year after Katrina (Paste)
• Gospel of the Fab Four by Jen Waters (Washington Times)
• Little Miss Sunshine: A family on the verge of a breakdown (Relevant)
• Georgetown Univerity ejects private ministry groups: Six Protestant organizations affected (Washington Post)
• Georgetown bars ministries from campus (Washington Times)
• Hitler and Stalin were possessed by the Devil, says Vatican exorcist (Daily Mail)
• Exorcist says demonic influence is strong in today's world (Catholic News Service)
• Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock (PopMatters)
• Godzilla goes digital (USA Today)
• New Orleans bar stayed open through Katrina and chaos that followed (AFP)
• Marketers get their mascots in on action at MySpace (USA Today)
• Elvis Thou Art: Author doesn't buy notion that Presley cult exists (Winston-Salem Journal)
• 'Invincible' an inspired ride (USA Today)
• Jesus: Unplugged. Converts are flocking to a Santa Cruz church that's muscling in on the Christian evangelical movement by accepting MTV, flip-flops and intellectual curiosity into their hearts. Is it just attitude, or is this hip movement really a new kind of Christianity? (Metro San Jose)
• Being Catherine Keener (NY Times)
• Tattoos and snakes on special teams: Raiders' Cooper knows where his value is (SF Chronicle)
• Harley economy (Reveries)
• Tattoo you (Reveries)
• If you wanted to watch 'Superman,' which media would you choose now? (USA Today)
• Megadeth angry at United Nations. Mustaine on organization: 'It's an abomination what they're doing' (CNN)
• The infinite album: Release a traditional 13-track cd? No thanks, says Beck. Instead, he serves up a collection of songs, remixes, and videos that fans can piece together any way they want. (Wired)