Bible Bending website of the day: RaptureLetters.com
Those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior can enter the e-mail addresses of their non-believing friends and family. When the rapture comes and believers are taken to Heaven, the non-believers will receive an e-mail address explaining what just happened.

YouTube Bible Bender: Psalm 23 Bracelet Commercial
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New York Times (NY): Five Letters in response to the front-page February 12th article "Believing in Scripture but Playing by Science's Rules."

Tusculoosa (AL): Americans have forgotten that their country's values were based on the Bible.

American Thinker (AZ): Muslims in Jerusalem have disrespected the Jewish tradition by building a mosque over the ruins of the temple mount.

Red and Black (GA): A professor at the University of Georgia tries to emulate Jesus' teaching style.

PR Inside (Austria): Bible study helps those struggling with alcoholism.

The Huffington Post (NY): Court witnesses and U.S. representatives do not need the Bible to say the truth--they only need the threat of prosecution for perjury.

PR Web (WA): And the Lord said, "pick up your phone." Bible ring tones are here. Have the New King James Version inform you of your call.

San Diego State University: In the Beginning: The Greatest Story Never Told is a new play opening up this weekend which tells the story of the people who did not make it into scripture.

OhGizmo (Canada): "Fireplace Most Likely to be Featured in a Biblical Epic."

New York Times (NY): Marcus Ross, a graduate student at Rhode Island University, has recently submitted his dissertation on a marine reptile that disappeared 65 million years ago. His acceptance into the field of paleontology has stirred controversy not because of the quality of his work, but because he is a professed young earth creationist who believes the earth is at most 10,000 years old. Paleontology and scripture are two paradigms, Ross says, and he sees no difficulty in reconciling the two.

Belfast Telegraph (UK): Irish footballer has been acting like Noah lately.

National Ledger (AZ): The wait is over: at last, Biblical prophesy and the Roswell incident merge together in Terry James' new novel The Rapture Dialogues: Dark Dimension.

Concord Monitor (NH): Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts who will announce his run for presidency tomorrow, may find that his faith as a Mormon will become a political issue.

The Frederick News-Post (MD): William Emanuel presents a lecture series on "People of Color in the Bible." Emanuel believes that the black community has been miseducated about Biblical facts and therefore has a responsibility to spread the message that the Old Testament was written about the African Hebrews.

St. Petersburg Times (FL): Sex sells. A church in Florida has launched a campaign that it hopes will change the discourse on sex and center is on biblical teachings. A similar campaign called "Porn and Pancakes" organized by XXX Church has also enjoyed media attention.


The Forum (ND) (subscription): The Bible regards fetuses as property and therefore does not condemn abortion as a previous editorial suggested. Another article in a local North Carolina newspaper has found evidence to the contrary.

Ekklesia, UK: The Student Christian Movement's annual conference will focus on the uses and abuses of the Bible.

CBS Denver (CO): A woman in Colorado is gathering signatures in support of her proposal to add the Bible to the high school curriculum.

Christianity Today (UK): The Voice is a new program that targets the 20 million Americans who are searching for new ways to explore the Bible, or who are seeking to read it for the first time.

Jackson Hole Star-Tribune (WY): Lifeway Christian Resources have made it their mission to send the troops in Iraq Christian Singles magazines, not porn.

San Diego Union Tribune (CA): A proposal in the Arkansas House of Representatives to commemorate Thomas Paine day on January 29 failed after legislators raised concerns that Paine was critical of the Bible and Christianity.

• Canton Repository (OH): Just in time for Valentine's Day: Biblical love stories.
  
  
• Kansas.com (KA): Bill Maher, a notorious critic of religion, makes an unannounced visit to the new creation museum opening up this spring in Cincinnati as part of his documentary on religion.
  
  
• Spero News: Semitic text found in Egyptian pyramid will help scholars understand "several rare words in the Bible."
  
  
• Jewish Review (OR): "The Garden of Ruth" is a new detective novel based on the story of Ruth. While the author admits to taking artistic liberties, she maintains that the novel is "faithful to the spirit of the Bible."
  
  
• Press Release Web (WA): "Restoring the Biblical Jesus" is a new book that challenges the notion that the Bible supports Jesus' divinity.
  
  
• Belleville News Democrat (MO): A Bible Study led by a judge in Missouri prompts a complaint from an attorney who claims that the group is an improper government endorsement of religion.
  
  
• WKRN (TN): What does the Bible Say about corporal punishment?
  
  
• Slate.com: From David Plotz Blog "Blogging the Bible"--how Tarantino bent Ezekiel in Pulp Fiction.
  

• Glenwood Springs Post Independent (CO): Ted Haggard is taking the necessary steps to return his life to one that "conforms with the teachings of the Bible."
  
  
• Kansas City Star (MO): An exhibit in Kansas City displays pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls which the article describe as the "Actual words that allow us to peer into the minds of people who lived in the Middle East more than 2,000 years ago."
  
  
• Inspire Magazine (UK): CityResearchers plans to distribute New International Versions of the Bible or dramatized Scripture on DVD across North America.
  
  
• Marshall Democrat News (MO): Hey, where is your Bible that you consult on a daily basis?
  
  
• American Chronicle (CA): "We are socialized, enculturated, 'programmed,' structured to assume and believe based upon the stories of the Bible. Every story we live, every story we read harkens to some basic story in the Bible. We may be secular, never having stepped foot in a church, and yet we are Christian at some level."
  
  
• Fort Wayne News Sentinel (IN): People walk away from the church in favor of science because they do not understand biblical metaphors.
  
  
• New York Times (NY): Review of "Biblical Art in a Secular Century."
  
  
• The Tartan (PA): "The Skin of Our Teeth," a new play opening in Pittsburgh, is described as "the Bible meets the Ice Age."
  
  
• 365Gay.com: A transitioning transsexual woman says she was terminated by Spring Arbor University after she was told that her "cross-dressing" does not reflect biblical principles.

• The Trumpet (OK): British and American leaders should heed the prophesies in the Bible when creating policy in the Middle East.
  
  
• Atlanta Journal Constitution (GA) (Subscription): Don Levine, the man who created GI Joe, is now introducing "Almighty Heroes," a collection of biblical action figures that includes Old Testament heroes such as Moses, Samson, David and Noah.
  
  
• Fort Wayne News Sentinel (IN): Packets from God's Door Keepers are in high demand in county prisons.
  
  
• The Chronicle Herald (Canada): The Jehovah's Witness who went to court after receiving a blood transfusion last year will have to move to another province if she wants to ensure that her religious beliefs are followed after the court unanimously decided that medical doctors are allowed to act in whatever manner will save their patient's life.
  
  
• Christian Today (UK): A television series based on Bible stories for children entitled Friends and Hereos has been scheduled for broadcast on the BBC.
  
  
• Fay Observer (NC): A proposed North Carolina Senate bill would allow oaths using non-Christian texts.
  
  
• First Coast News (FL): Review of Bible-based dieting program.

• Newswire (NY): A new survey by the American Bible society reveals that parents are still the most important role models to teens. "When choosing role models, the teens surveyed said the most important qualities they look for include biblical principals such as honesty, integrity, loyalty and truthfulness" [emphasis mine].

• USA Today: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility are urging Grand Canyon National Park to remove a Young Earth creationist book from the visitor's center. The author of the book, Tom Vail, insists that his points are legitimate. "The most important thing," he says, "is that you ought to be able to trust your God and the claims the Bible makes."
  
  
• In-Forum (ND): 10 "scientific reasons" that the Bible is the source of truth. According to the author, the Bible reveals an understanding of disease and germs, the mechanics of conception, the physics of the universe, and nutrition.
  
  
• World Magazine (subscription required): Some evangelical leaders undertake the task of convincing evangelical voters that the Democratic candidate's agenda are consistent with the Bible. For excerpts, click here.
  
  
• Lebanon Daily News (PA): Chairman from a community theater responds to Biblically-based accusations that a currently running play is blasphemous.
  
  
• Austin American-Statesman (TX): Biblical passages to work through a divorce.
• Toledo Blade (OH): Packaging is everything: the Bible can now be read as a magazine.
  
  
• Catholic World News: 36,000 Bible's headed to South Africa were lost at sea. Those who speak Xhosa can be comforted knowing that they were insured.
  
  
• The Christian Post: How to Evangelize Tibetan Buddhists in the West.
  
  
• BlackNews.com: Art work depicts Biblical scenes with black characters in an effort "promote the truth about people of color in the Bible."
  
  
• The Citizen (NY): Children reveal what they believe the Bible says.
  
  
• Waterloo Record (Canada): The recent variations of Biblical materials appeal to those looking for efficiency and a new perspective. David Plotz, author of the widely popular "Blogging the Bible" on Slate.com, says that his blog has taught him that, "Americans are very open-minded about religions, and they want to be engaged. They want to be able to joke and ask dumb questions. They want to look at it in a fresh way.''
  
  
• The Conservative Voice (NC): Apostate Episcopalians will pay the price for supporting homosexuality when God does not.
  
  
• NY Arts Magazine: A new exhibit in New York features Bible-bending artists.
  
  
• TransWorldNews (GA): According to a new poll, 133 out of 292 Christians surveyed said that Christians should not get unsecured loans. Many based their comments on what the Bible says about borrowing.
  
  
• Lake County Record-Bee (CA): The Bible is OK with omnivores.