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Quick look
Greetings. Can you take a quick look at the Gospel of the Ebionites article and give me an opinion on whether it has enough potential go to FAC. My main concern is that featured articles tend to be rather long. This is a fairly specialized topic. Not much is known about this lost gospel other than what scholars have been able to glean from the writings of the Church Father Epiphanius. Thanks. Ignocrates (talk) 00:19, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * And greetings to you. First, I am very impressed with your research—both amount and apparent quality. Second, you are an excellent writer. For such an esoteric topic, you have organized it very well. You have it well sourced with scholarly pubs. It is amazingly error-free.
 * I did find the large number of the combination of Notes and standard citations rather confusing. However, what it may lack in length, it makes up for with the extensive quotations in the Notes.
 * Since you are the single author, I can't even guess at the huge number of hours you've invested in it. I have been a GA evaluator but never been on a featured article team, so I'm no expert to advise you. Looking at the list of featured articles, esoteric topics have made it to that distinction. So why not go for it? Wishing you the best...Afaprof01 (talk) 02:57, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The effort was not mine alone. User:In ictu oculi was a valued contributor. In that case, would you be willing to do the honors for a second peer review? I would like to put the article through an independent review with FAC expressly in mind. Ignocrates (talk) 03:25, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I am honored that you would ask me. However, (a) I must confess ignorance as to what that would entail; and (b) this is a particularly busy time for me. As I recall my GA evaluator efforts, and anticipating that an FAC review would be even more strenuous, right now I could not commit to the time and effort that I anticipate would be needed and that your article deserves. Thank you for asking me. Afaprof01 (talk) 19:46, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I hope you will be available when the time comes to review the Gospel of the Hebrews article for GAC. The article is currently a work in progress, and it will probably be ready in about a month. I already have volunteers lined up to do an internal review (polishing the apple) and a GAC external review, so your help with a rigorous peer review prior to GAC would be much appreciated. Ignocrates (talk) 22:41, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll be glad to be a reviewer for you on the GAC. Best wishes to you on the FAC! Afaprof01 (talk) 02:10, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Christianity Newsletter (May 2013)
 Membership report The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 363 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Pleonic, MJWilliams1998, Iloilo Wanderer, Jkadavoor, Sir Ian and McBenjamin. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. We would be able to achieve nothing here without the input of all of you. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.

From the Editor This month we hear the news that the Bible is to be made into a film after outstanding success of a biblical miniseries on the History Channel, and we have seen the release of Iraqi Pastor Ali Hamzah from his confinement in Iraq.

After last month's spotlight on the Jesus work group, the flagship article, Jesus, was nominated for Good Article status after much work from FutureTrillionaire and History2007, and provisionally passed by the reviewer, although they have requested a second opinion. Our many thanks for the hard work that has gone into restoring this article to a quality piece of work.

This month the second largest denomination of Christianity, the Eastern Orthodox Church, celebrates Easter and the death and resurrection of the Son of God Jesus Christ.

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Church of the month Wells Cathedral was this month promoted to GA status. Rodw has appealed for any help project members can give to improve this article for a FA nomination.

Contest of the month No particular contest this month. I am however getting rather close to getting together a more or less complete set of articles relating to different areas of Christianity which can be found in recent reference sources on the broad topic of Christianity, and about various subtopics, which I hope to have finished in the next few weeks. I wonder what the rest of you might think of, maybe, making the contests of future months be basically directed at filling in the gaps of our existing coverage of topics, like those topics given significant coverage in specialized reference works which we don't yet have content on, and giving the thanks, and rewards, whatever they might be, to those who create and develop such content. By John Carter

Featured content and GA report Since the last report;

Featured report; Madonna in the Church, by Ceoil, Truthkeeper88, and Johnbod was promoted to Featured Article status. Crucifixion and Last Judgement was promoted to featured picture status, after nomination by Crisco 1492.

Wells Cathedral, by Rodw, Robert of Ghent, by User:Ealdgyth, Christianity in Medieval Scotland, by Sabrebd, and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, also by Sabrebd were promoted to GA status.

Also these past months, the DYKs on the main page included Lectionary 311, by Leszek Jańczuk; Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn, by Gerda Arendt; Whalsay Parish Church, by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, Dr. Blofeld; Interpretatio Christiana, by Altenmann; First Congregational Church, Salt Lake City, by Orlady; Church of King Charles the Martyr, Royal Tunbridge Wells, by The C of E; First Church in Albany (Reformed), by Daniel Case; Pope Anastasius II, by AbstractIllusions; Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Palma, by Dr. Blofeld, Ipigott, Rosiestep; Colan Church, by Rosiestep, Nvvchar, Ipigott; Notre Dame Cathedral, Papeete, Bloom6132, Church of St. Wenceslaus (New Prague, Minnesota), by Elkman; St. Joseph Catholic Church (San Antonio, Texas), by Gilliam; Doubting Thomas, by Johnbod; Robert of Ghent, by Ealdgyth; and Holy Trinity Church, Holdgate, by Peter I. Vardy. Our profoundest thanks and congratulations to all those involved!

Christian art

This depiction of the Crucifixion and Last Judgement was painted by Dutch artist Jan van Eyck and promoted to Featured Picture this month.

Spotlight SPOTLIGHT

This month, we turn our attention to the Encyclopedic articles sub-group, which aims to provide "a collection point for lists of articles contained in other reference sources relating to Christianity, which could serve as a basis for developing our own content". Created by John Carter, it is primarily a list of links, red or otherwise, for subjects which have an article in the reference works listed therein. This serves as a very useful list if any project members are "stuck for what to do" and there remains lots of potential for articles developed from this list.

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