And The Church is Worried About the DaVinci Code?
Posted on February 6, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Music, Religion | Leave a Comment
“The Vatican deal would be Jackson’s first musical work since his trial, as his image has taken a nosedive since his court appearances last year.”
Read More..>>Yay Statechurch
Posted on January 24, 2006 - Filed Under Politics, Religion, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
An Elm Creek, Nebraska pastor read the following to open the day in Nebraska’s legislature. Love it or leave it? I left it years ago… [emphasis mine - in case their is any doubt this was purely political] Almighty God, we come humbly into your presence this morning, seeking your favor. I thank you, God, [...]
Read More..>>We’re just all screwed
Posted on December 16, 2005 - Filed Under Politics, Race, Religion, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Wha-huh? Confused western intellectuals? But these familiar generalities – Enlightenment versus Religion, Democracy versus Fascism – have always been facile, and are now being exploded by the ordeal of another prominent writer of Muslim ancestry, Orhan Pamuk, who goes on trial in Turkey today. Mr. Pamuk is accused of a committing a crime by mentioning, [...]
Read More..>>Let this be my solemn vow
Posted on December 12, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Race, Religion | Leave a Comment
I’m not sure how google-bombing works exactly. But as I sang in elementary school Christmas programs, “let it begin with me”: douchebag
Read More..>>Party Up!
Posted on December 6, 2005 - Filed Under Money, Religion, Tempests In Teacups | Leave a Comment
Evangelicals putting the X back in X-Mas: Cally Parkinson, a spokeswoman for Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., said church leaders decided that organizing services on a Christmas Sunday would not be the most effective use of staff and volunteer resources. The last time Christmas fell on a Sunday was 1994, and only [...]
Read More..>>Guardian of Bad Religion
Posted on December 6, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Film, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, Religion, Theology | 1 Comment
After seeing links from Laila Lalami and Bookslut to Polly Toynbee’s Guardian “review” of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I thought I’d check it out – mostly because of Lalami’s remarks that it would be enough to keep her away from a movie she may have otherwise seen. The article is in the [...]
Read More..>>For Those Scoring At Home
Posted on December 1, 2005 - Filed Under Film, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Religion, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Number of made-for-television biographies: Pope John “We Need More Saints” Paul II: II Amy “Long Island Lolita” Fisher”: III1 What does this all mean? Nothing more than serve as a reminder of the existential crises I am thrown into each time I ask myself, “Is the Pope Polish?“. 1Once you go Roman, you never go [...]
Read More..>>Path to enlightment, take 2
Posted on November 4, 2005 - Filed Under Music, Religion, Turf Wars | 2 Comments
It’s Friday morning, day 19 of my project to get through my entire Ipod songbase once through the random function. (At the current pace, it will take 8 months, which is a long time not to add any new songs, I’ll probably crumble by Thanksgiving…) In the process it’s easy to succumb to the all-too-human [...]
Read More..>>Hoosier Daddy? Hopefully Not the Holy Spirit
Posted on October 5, 2005 - Filed Under Crime, Politics, Religion, The Man Stickin It To Us, Vagaries of the Heart | Leave a Comment
Via boing boing, a proposed Indiana law would criminalize any who become pregnant by means other than sexual intercourse, preferably while all parties involved wear a Larry Bird jersey. As boing points out, this would lead to the tricky situation where the Mother of the Son of Man would be in flagrante, while legal scholars [...]
Read More..>>Christian Rock: the gateway drug
Posted on October 5, 2005 - Filed Under Music, Religion | 1 Comment
And I quote: One definite fruit of religious rock is that it leads it’s followers back to involvement with secular rock. Many Christian young people listen to secular rock radio stations and own secular rock albums in addition to their collection of religious rock and roll. As already pointed out, at religious rock concerts some [...]
Read More..>>Intentional Design
Posted on September 28, 2005 - Filed Under Religion | Comments Off
From today’s Post
Read More..>>Agapeo will tear us apart
Posted on September 21, 2005 - Filed Under Religion, Sports | Comments Off
What happens when a baseball player queries as to the eternal damnation of the Jews? The team’s chaplain gets banned from the club house during the "investigation". Too bad Reggie White isn’t around to help clear things up.
Read More..>>“The ten most offensive jokes were about Christianity.”
Posted on September 6, 2005 - Filed Under Religion | Comments Off
Every year my college dorm would put on a comedy/talent show in February. As it was a Catholic university, often the jokes tended toward the religious. Unfortunately, the Sisters* with veto power over content (as they ran the theater we used) often forced some of the sketches out** (one of my personal favorites being one [...]
Read More..>>What Religion Reads The Most?
Posted on August 18, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Religion | Comments Off
If the Roman Catholics are following Il Papa’s don’t read Dan Brown & J.K. Rowling campaign, then they may not be leading the charge. But large sales in RC zip-codes indicate a devil-may-care attitude to literature. Fellow people of the book Jews "just read more" may enjoy a higher per-capita reading rate, but small global [...]
Read More..>>Blog Battle or Scrapped Flaming Lips Album Title
Posted on July 22, 2005 - Filed Under Money, Religion | Comments Off
Mark Moford battles the Scientoligists.
Read More..>>And no one pities either the boys or the men
Posted on July 18, 2005 - Filed Under Politics, Religion | Comments Off
As if being a rock god isn’t enough, Ted Leo points us to: adventures of confessions of saint augustine bear
Read More..>>“We see ourselves as doing important foreign policy work that the Bush Administration is not doing”
Posted on May 10, 2005 - Filed Under Religion | Comments Off
Exporting Christian rock, there’s a brilliant idea. In related news…
Read More..>>He Loves It When You Call Him Il Papa
Posted on April 20, 2005 - Filed Under Music, Religion | Comments Off
Mark Moford in an open letter to Benedict XVI touches on many important issues, some swept under the rug by lesser brown nosers. Among them: Pope, why is Christian music still so patently awful? Do you know? Oh, I know, there’s all these quasi-hip new Christian rock bands and drug- and alcohol- and debauchery- and [...]
Read More..>>I Have My Doubts
Posted on March 2, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain, Religion | Comments Off
David Ian Miller at SF Gate talks to Rik Myslewski, editor for Mac Addict magazine and self-described "happy atheist".. Included was this exchange which caught my eye: That sounds a lot like you’re taking a leap of faith, the very thing that you might say about a religious person. Wouldn’t it just be simpler to [...]
Read More..>>I mean, think if only MLK were more like Mel Gibson?
Posted on January 27, 2005 - Filed Under Religion | Comments Off
I can’t think of a better premise* than citing a quote that is attributed to Jesus (with no context to boot). That sounds like primary source to me. Forget the beatitudes, I guess it’s time to get all medieval on them heathen asses. Not to let reasoned thought or nuanced theology get in the way [...]
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