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...deep well. And yet according to the new book Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, by Bart Ehrman, it was Holy Writ for several centuries to some early Christian communities in the Middle East. The passage comes from something called the Gospel of Peter. You probably haven't heard of Peter because by A.D. 350 church fathers had tarred it as heresy, along with dozens of other early Scriptures with names like the Gospel of Mary, the Acts of John, the Homilies of Clement and the Gospel of Truth. Thus Peter and the others...
Most scholars believe that the majority of the lost Gospels were written decades and in some cases centuries after Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But a minority think one of the long-abandoned texts, the Gospel of Thomas, was very much on the mind of John's author when he sat down to write in about...
...Head is the album's signature triumph. It's not just that Isley invents powerful high notes where previously there was just empty space, but that he instinctively knows which lyrics matter, repeating "On my head, on my head" during the chorus until the song feels like a gospel ballad. Never mind that Bacharach - who conducted the orchestra - inserts one of his signature flugelhorn solos into the bridge; Raindrops is Isley's song now. Cyndi Lauper doesn't have Isley's voice - or anybody's voice - and the thought of her attacking the Etta James classic At Last...
...decade since the diagnosis, LaBelle has had a Tony Bennett--like resurgence. Her reputation as a singer has deepened, and younger singers now clamor to record with her. In the past year LaBelle's gospel-trained voice has graced albums by rappers DMX, Wyclef Jean and OutKast. She has signed with Def Jam Classics and is working on an album for release...
...ultimately the federal government must step into its essential role as guarantor of those freedoms to unambiguously recognize the right of adult citizens across America to wed one another, no matter their sex. But with today’s narrow-minded White House, where President Bush takes as gospel that “marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman” and has established a holiday to bigotry in October’s “Marriage Protection Week,” the governments of states like Vermont, Hawaii and now Massachusetts can?...