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The 2002 God Uses Ink, a conference for Canadian Christian writers, will be held in Guelph, Ont. June 13–15. The theme will be “Write With Power and Grace”. Keynote speaker will be radio and TV broadcaster and newspaper columnist Michael Coren, best-selling author of 10 books, including All Things Considered and J.R.R. Tolkien, the Man Who Created the Lord of the Rings. The three-day conference will offer six classes: Beginning-Intermediate Non-Fiction; Intermediate/Advanced Non-Fiction; Intermediate/Advanced Fiction; Drama; Writing for a Purpose; and professional speaking. God Uses Ink will no longer be hosted by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. Nancy Lindquist and Wendy Nelles are working with a staff of volunteers to organize the conference. For more information about God Uses Ink, visit the web site. – God Uses Ink
In his annual message for World Communications Day, Pope John Paul II is planning to single out the Internet as a new tool for sharing Christianity. World Communications Day will take place May 12, 2002, but his speech will be published in January to help churches prepare for the event. The Pope has admitted that he knows virtually nothing about the Internet and writes most of his documents and speeches by hand, or dictates them. – Evangelical Press News Service
Giftware made up 20% of the $4 billion in merchandise sold through Christian bookstores in the US last year. In comparison, books and Bibles account for 44%; music 19%; and the remaining 17% include stationery, church supplies, software, curriculum and apparel. – Faith Today
Elvis Presley was honoured for his gospel recordings when the American Gospel Music Association inducted him into its Gospel Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tenn. on Nov. 27. Presley first heard gospel music as a boy attending the Assembly of God in Tupelo, Miss. His love of gospel music stayed with him throughout his life, and he recorded over 50 gospel songs during his career, including “He Touched Me”, “Without Him”, “How Great Thou Art” and “Peace in the Valley”, which he performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. His ties to the gospel music community include four Gospel Music Hall of Fame members – the Jordanians, the Imperials, the Speers and the Stamps – all back-up groups for Presley. Other new inductees to the hall of fame included Doris Akers, Wendy Bagwell & the Sunlifters, Keith Green, Kurt Kaiser, Larry Norman, the Rambos and Albertina Walker. – EPNS
A study conducted by a Stanford University researcher suggests that the fewer commercials children see, the less materialistic they become. By the end of the study, children who had had their television viewing cut by about one-third were 70% less likely than other children to have asked their parents for a toy in the previous week. – Plugged In
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