Short stuff

More than 95 million copies of The Chronicles of Narnia have sold worldwide since publication, says an executive editor at HarperCollins Publishers, which holds the rights to the books in most English language markets. The company is expecting a five-fold increase in sales this year, following the release of the first Narnia movie.

—Globe and Mail

“Kids who have repeated exposure to sexual content become sexually active at an earlier age. The research is absolutely there,” says Tim Warner, executive director of the Parents Television Council. A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found the number of sex scenes on television has doubled over the past seven years.

—Evangelical Press News

Interpreting the Bible Together, a 6-part interactive study of a “hermeneutic of hearing” by Doug Heidebrecht, is now available on DVD, from Kindred Productions. An extension of the Listening and Learning sessions the Board of Faith and Life conducted in various provinces in 2004 and 2005, each 20-minute part of the study presents one skill or step in the hermeneutical task.

The editorial committees of GAMEO, a new international Anabaptist history initiative for the internet, met in Winnipeg Dec. 1–2 to plan the site’s expansion. GAMEO, or the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, currently has some 2,500 articles, mostly carried over from the Canadian Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, plus about 125 confessions of faith and other denominational statements. It receives about 27,000 hits per day.

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Crossdogs.com is a new online service for independent Christian musicians; artists can create web-based press kits and connect with churches and ministry venues.

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