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...seemed a long shot--a greatest-hits album from a bluegrass band that had never had a hit--but Now That I've Found You by Alison Krauss and Union Station was the from-nowhere find of 1995. A beguiling sample of R. and B., pop and blue-eyed gospel tethered to Krauss' soaring soprano, the CD sold well, won some Grammys and established its lead singer as proof there was still purity and clarity in country music...
...preconcert publicity had neglected to mention that a free message accompanied the free music: the message of the Christian gospel. The band proceeded to play a set of Beatles-era rock songs with the lyrics modified to reflect the evangelical mission. "Love me do" became "Love me Jesus...
DIED. HAROLD MELVIN, 57, leader of the Blue Notes, the gospel-tinted rhythm-and-blues ensemble best known for its onetime lead singer Teddy Pendergrass and its achingly mournful 1972 hit If You Don't Know Me by Now; probably of a stroke; in Philadelphia...
...impact point of our age's need to believe and its need to know, and generating best sellers both for its fervent proponents and (lately) its detractors, the historical Jesus movement (Flash! Virgin birth a cover-up! Resurrection a fraud!) hardly wants for print. Yet in his Gospel Truth (Riverhead Books; 305 pages; $24.95), Russell Shorto provides a useful addition: an up-to-date survey and smart lay analysis of the theories that together constitute one of the stickiest challenges to traditional Christianity...
Shorto, a journalist, skillfully lays out the anomalies, allusions and stylistic shifts that have caused a wide spectrum of scholars to see the Gospels less as factual truth than as a product of faith and early Christian politics. He also examines the recent archaeological finds that revved the debate. Detouring occasionally (describing, for instance, a DNA study of the goats whose parched skins were used for the Dead Sea Scrolls), he picks and chooses among the available theories to arrive at a kind of aggregate anti-Gospel...