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Whether she’s covering dog cuisine, gospel road tours or competitive party clowns, this veteran journalist makes it a point not to “write about subjects that are predictable.” And her time at Harvard is just inspiring more of the unexpected. “The other day,” she confides, “I had three really good ideas for stories and one idea for a book, and I thought, “Oh my God, I’m on fire...
...popularity of novels like Brown’s—in which a Harvard professor discovers a ancient conspiracy involving the Catholic Church—King’s somewhat unique work has gained increased attention. Two of her recent books on religious figures have been particularly controversial. The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle “portrays Mary Magdalene as an important apostle after the resurrection,” King explains. Her other book, What is Gnosticism?, targets a more academic audience...
...campus, must attend chapel three mornings a week, but the service can feel as much like a pep rally as church. Stuffed onto risers and folding chairs in the event center, the young adults sing along, raise their arms and sway as student Christian rock and gospel groups perform. Leaning on a lectern in front of a towering video screen, campus pastor Chris Brown, in jeans, sneakers and a goatee, cuts from photos of A.P.U. students "who need our prayers" to a scene from the Jim Carrey movie Bruce Almighty. In his sermon, Brown makes references to his winter-break...
DIED. JAKE HESS, 76, Southern gospel pioneer and early influence on Elvis Presley; in Opelika, Ala. The youngest of 12 children, Hess began singing in 1948 and starred in the seminal Christian music group the Statesmen Quartet. As a teenager in Memphis, Presley often attended Statesmen shows, and Hess later sang backup on the King's albums...
...this struggling Christian, the theory of religion professor Elaine Pagels--that John intended his Gospel to debunk and debase the Gospel of Thomas--is as plausible as it is unsettling. If Pagels is correct, does John play equally fast and loose with the truth in the sayings he attributes to Jesus? John's Gospel is the most direct assertion that Jesus is the Son of God, and if this Gospel were put aside as unreliable, then Christians would be much closer to being left with a man who is merely another prophet, a peer of Confucius, Buddha and Muhammad...