Hollywood keeps making new versions of classic films because the passing of time creates new generations to entertain. Producers bet that, given fresh alterations to script and cast, the old moneymakers will attract new audiences to the box office.

The release of a new book by Bart Ehrman, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's pre-eminent New Testament scholar, has long been an unnerving and occasionally intimidating time for evangelical Christians on campus.

Clergy Corner: Ken Tram

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Gospel of Luke records that, as he was dying on the cross, Jesus showed his boundless mercy by praying for his killers this way: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Not so fast, say contributors to the Conservative Bible Project.

Dear Editor: In his diatribe denouncing Ted Peters' ("The evolution of faith," Dec. 5, AFN) "theistic evolutionism," self-named "intellectually honest Christian" Kyle Draper Dec. 12 letter to the editor) exhibits the exultant anti-science antagonism of evangelical zealots, who proudly proclaim their faith in Biblical infallibility, apparently without understanding what the Bible contains. Take, for merely one example, the hopeless New Testament contradictions between Jesus's genealogies in Matthew 1:6-16 and Luke 3:23-31. The two genealogies conflict in every respect. Matthew lists 26 generations between David and Joseph; Luke lists 41. With only two exceptions, all the names from David to Joseph (Jesus's putative stepfather) are different. (Matthew cites Jacob as Joseph's father; Luke cites Heli.) Here's the problem for believers in biblical infallibility: How can one individual have two distinctly different ancestral lines? Elementary logic decrees that either (a) Matthew's or Luke's genealogy is false or (b) both are false. Once you confront that incontrovertible fact, you must concede that the Bible is not infallible. As for Draper's warning against the "perils of evolution," I counter with a warning against the perils of deliberate, self-willed ignorance, stupidity and hypocrisy, traits blatantly represented by President Bush. He has used his primitive version of Christianity as a political weapon wielded by his personal political thug, Karl Rove, to frighten and dupe the American people. It will take a mighty effort for the next president to restore U.S. standing in the world, both politically and economically. And it can't be done by a religious nut or a panderer. C.W. Griffin

Dear Editor: In his diatribe denouncing Ted Peters' ("The evolution of faith," Dec. 5, AFN) "theistic evolutionism," self-named "intellectually honest Christian" Kyle Draper Dec. 12 letter to the editor) exhibits the exultant anti-science antagonism of evangelical zealots, who proudly proclaim their faith in Biblical infallibility, apparently without understanding what the Bible contains. Take, for merely one example, the hopeless New Testament contradictions between Jesus's genealogies in Matthew 1:6-16 and Luke 3:23-31. The two genealogies conflict in every respect. Matthew lists 26 generations between David and Joseph; Luke lists 41. With only two exceptions, all the names from David to Joseph (Jesus's putative stepfather) are different. (Matthew cites Jacob as Joseph's father; Luke cites Heli.) Here's the problem for believers in biblical infallibility: How can one individual have two distinctly different ancestral lines? Elementary logic decrees that either (a) Matthew's or Luke's genealogy is false or (b) both are false. Once you confront that incontrovertible fact, you must concede that the Bible is not infallible. As for Draper's warning against the "perils of evolution," I counter with a warning against the perils of deliberate, self-willed ignorance, stupidity and hypocrisy, traits blatantly represented by President Bush. He has used his primitive version of Christianity as a political weapon wielded by his personal political thug, Karl Rove, to frighten and dupe the American people. It will take a mighty effort for the next president to restore U.S. standing in the world, both politically and economically. And it can't be done by a religious nut or a panderer. C.W. Griffin

Learn about botany, history and Scripture on a walk alongside arboretum volunteer and Bible scholar David Oberpriller during the Plants of the Bible: Guided Tour.

The big topic Monday was homosexuality, regarding which, a few thoughts.

LONDON -- The surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited - digitally.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.

The holy Bible as a work of art will be showcased for three months, starting Tuesday at the Phoenix Art Museum.

It is not often that a landmark case emerges from the East Valley.