• Bible Bender of the Day: An ambitious article in the Edmonton Sun asks: What would Jesus drive? The Answer: "Jesus drove a Honda but didn't like to talk about it. In the gospel according to St. John, Christ tells the crowd, 'I did not speak of my own Accord.'
  
  
• Thanks to Rep. Keith Ellison's (MN) decision to take his congressional oath over the Koran, the conversation over the Bible's moral hegemony in U.S. continues...
  
  
• Atheists are doing PR work for the Fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible, according to Giles Fraser from The Guardian (London)
  
  
• NewsBusters argues that the Bible sanctions, and even "commands" the death penalty.
  
  
• Deval Patrick, soon to be the first African American governor of Massachusetts, will take his oath over the Mendi Bible, also known as the Amistad Bible. The Mendi Bible was a gift to John Quincy Adams from the Mendi Tribe after he successfully fought for their freedom from slavery in 1841.
  
  
• Yet another boxer whose career was propelled through devotion to the Bible. And another. And, in a new twist, a high-school basketball star finds the Bible helps him to curb his marijuana use.
  
  
• A letter to the editor claims the Bible condemns homosexuals while another letter clarifies that the Bible condemns homosexuality.
  
  
• Author and Journalist Christ Hedges shares his view that the Bible is only as good as its interpreter.
  
  
• A new $27 million dollar Creationist museum in Petersburg, Kentucky will open its doors this spring. "It's not hitting them over the head with a Bible," owner Ken Ham tells reporters, "it's just teaching that we can defend what it says."