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Monday April 2, 2007

Church: BBC has an interesting article tied to a documentary about America’s most hated family (the Phelps “God Hates Fags” family).

Humor: The ladies of GirlTalk share a great little video clip.

Book: At Beginning with Moses you can get a deal on “Pierced for our Transgressions,” an important book dealing with the doctrine of penal substitution.

Humor: Following up on last week’s strange Google map, here is one that is bound to get you in big trouble.

Church: The Christian Post says Christians were pleasantly surprised by the recent Time cover story about teaching the Bible in public schools.

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