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Time and Newsweek devote stories this week to Prince, and both note in passing that his faith as a Jehovah’s Witness has dialed back his earlier obsessions with sex.
Kathy Shaidle of relapsed catholic, in noting the death of “Lord of the Dance” composer Sydney Bertram Carter, uses the jocular headline “We’ve missed our chance to kill him.”
Goodbye, Babylon, a boxed six-CD set of music and sermons distributed by a startup called Dust-to-Digital, has led to some remarkably faith-friendly writing in recent months. Here, for instance, is veteran reviewer David Fricke in the Jan. 29 Rolling Stone:
