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Liane reads from listener letters and e-mails.

Essayist Cathy Grossman says today's true believers adhere to a softer theology than generations past. She points to our taste in Easter movies as evidence.

NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on the shortage of church organists around the country. With technological advancements creating lower demand and school cutbacks creating lower supply, the organ player is becoming a rare breed.

A hat is not just a form of fashion. To African-American women, a hat is a sacred headdress on days of worship. Liane talks to Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry, photographer and writer of Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, published by Doubleday Books.

Lisa talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the report by the Navy's Court of Inquiry, which investigated the collision of a U.S. submarine with a Japanese fishing boat. The New York Times is reporting that the Court recommends AGAINST a court martial of the skipper.

NPR's Wendy Kaufmann reports on how the 24-member U.S. Navy air crew passed the time while in detention in China. It wasn't all serious business--gin rummy and American pop songs were also part of the mix.

Reverend Carroll Pickett has stood alongside 95 inmates during their executions in Huntsville, Texas. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with Reverend Pickett about Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to allow injured victims and victim family members in the Oklahoma City Bombing to watch Timothy McVeigh's execution next month. To hear more from Reverend Pickett and other observers of Huntsville's death chamber, you can listen to the radio documentary Witness to an Execution produced by Stacy Abramson and David Isay. Just go to www.soundportraits.org.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports on members of a wandering band of young Sudanese refugees who are being resettled in the American Midwest. After losing their parents during the country's 40 years of civil war, thousands of orphans streaming into Kenya became known as the 'Lost Boys of Sudan.'

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports from Birmingham, Alabama, where jury selection begins today in the trial of one of the last surviving suspects in the bombing of a black church in 1963. Thomas Blanton Jr., a former Ku Klux Klan member, is accused of helping to plant the bomb that killed four girls and injured more than 20 others.

Joey Ramone, lead singer of the punk rock group, the Ramones, died of lymphoma yesterday. He was 49. The Ramones helped to define punk in the 1970s with songs like I Wanna be Sedated and Teenage Lobotomy.