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VeggieTales Live, the live stage production of the popular children’s cartoon series, made its debut in Minneapolis Jan. 29. The 70-minute show, featuring Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber and other characters, recreated the best-selling videos “Dave and the Giant Pickle” and “Josh and the Big Wall”. The show is set to tour the US over the next two years. The challenge for the production team is adapting the characters that don’t have limbs. – Evangelical Press News Service
A growing number of Web sites that once belonged to churches and ministries have been reborn as pornography sites. According to Wired magazine, pornography vendors buy a domain name whose registration has expired and then convert it into a porn site. One Russian company that does this offers to sell the domain name back to the ministry for a hefty price. – Evangelical Press News Service
The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon, the 10th book in the “Left Behind” series, is scheduled to be released July 2. This latest book in the series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins is expected to follow its predecessors in generating record-breaking sales. In December, Publishers Weekly predicted that the most recent book in the series, Desecration, may be the best selling adult hardcover novel for 2001. – Evangelical Press News Service
Today’s New International Version is a new “gender-accurate” translation of the Bible jointly released by Zondervan and the International Bible Society. It uses generic language where the meaning of the text was intended to include both men and women. Examples include “sons of God” being changed to “children of God” and “brothers” becoming “brothers and sisters” when no specific reference to gender was intended by the original text. The TNIV does not use neutral pronouns to refer to God; it continues to refer to God using masculine pronouns. The New Testament TNIV will be released in April; the Old Testament will be added to the TNIV in 2005. – Evangelical Press News Service
CBC News: Sunday is a new program about politics, media, faith and spirituality. Launched Feb. 24, the program devotes about 30 minutes, sometimes longer, of each two-hour show to stories about faith from a variety of reporters. Items scheduled to air include a story about Winnipegger Shirley Macklin, who recounts how her life changed after being held captive for eight days aboard a hijacked airplane in Afghanistan in 1999; regular interviews with Rabbi Guenther Platt of Toronto; a feature on photographer Larry Towell, who specializes in photographing Old Order and Mexican Mennonites; a profile of a Muslim comic who has to choose between comedy and his faith; and features on Promise Keepers. CBC News: Sundays airs from 10 a.m. to noon in all time zones and is rebroadcast Sundays at 7 p.m. on CBC Newsworld. – Christianweek
Christian books were the top-selling books for both fiction and non-fiction in 2001, according to Publisher’s Weekly. Desecration, the ninth book in the “Left Behind” series by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, was the top selling adult hardcover book in fiction, while The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson topped the adult hardcover non-fiction list for the year. Desecration, which was released Oct. 30, had the highest first printing of any hardcover novel in 2001 at 2.97 million, and its total sales in 2001 were 2.9 million. – Evangelical Press News Service
A Walk to Remember, the teen romance film starring Mandy Moore, made $12.2 million US during its first week, and sales had reached $30.3 million by the third week. The movie’s producers believe the film’s respectful portrayal of the Christian faith may be a factor in its success. The Hollywood film, which cost $10 million to make, was marketed to churches with a mailing to 10,000 youth pastors that included a Bible study about issues raised by the film. – Evangelical Press News Service
Skillet member Lori Peters will be a featured artist in the June issue of Modern Drummer magazine. Peters, 28, who is the Christian rock band’s drummer, says, “Our music passionately reveals our love for God, and our goal as a band is to tell people of all ages that Christ can change their lives if they’re willing to lay it down – then we rock in their faces Skillet style.” Skillet was the featured band at the National Youth Conference 2002 in Calgary. – Evangelical Press News Service
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