Culture Buzz It's not as hot as it sounds. On a chilly night in Grapevine, Texas, last week Reverend Ed Young and wife Lisa fired up the webcam and got under the covers on top of their Fellowship Church to promote “bring[ing] God back into the bed,” by having sex seven days straight. [Spoiler alert: They didn't have sex that night.]
Culture Buzz This is how I always imagine Jesus's ascension into the pearly gates. With all his dignity and harness intact.
Culture Buzz Penn Jillette uses an atheism scale to rate the presidential candidates, from Obama to Romney. Do you know who the most religious president was in American history? Well, Penn is about to tell you.
Culture Buzz After Stella Harville brought her Zimbabwe-born fiance to the Gulnare Free Will Baptist church last summer, a former pastor proposed to ban interracial couples from joining the Pike County congregation “to promote greater unity among the church body.” Church members voted 9-6 in favor of the ban this week.
Culture Buzz Not entirely sure why a wookie would be allowed to join the congregation.
“The older body has its own elegance,” says retired pastor Holly Hollerorth — a.k.a. Mr. June. Get your 2012 First Parish in Framingham calendar here. (via thefw.com)
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This video is blowing up on Orkut. An evangelical pastor dishes out the righteousness with a little Mortal Kombat and a little Street Fighter thrown in for good measure.
Save for funerals or weddings, this dude's pretty much the only good reason to go to church. Whoaaaaa!
http://current.com/news/92956571_1-500-year-old-church.htm
Recently unearthed in Israel.
This is the letter sent by an Evangelical Free Church to a recently divorced member of their congregation. God hates divorce, and by extension, you.
And now there's proof! The Devil makes people do crazy things, like mime-puke while your kid is sitting next to you cheering you on.
This is the best masked TV news interview since 2009's cyberstalking costume store owner. Satan is also a ginger.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/opinion/08macdonald.htm...
The unspoken reason why American clergy are burned out is that their congregations want sermons that entertain rather than offer moral counsel.
He makes just about as much sense, too. This is definitely the funniest thing I've seen all week. Wait for the 1:40 mark for extreme LOLs.
I really can't explain exactly what is happening here. All i know is that i'm going to have some heavy duty nightmares.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100604/ap_on_en_ot/us_armeni...
The Armenian church has sued the J. Paul Getty Museum to demand the return of seven pages ripped from a sacred Armenian Bible dating back to 1256. The lawsuit alleged the church had the Bible authenticated in 1947 or 1948 and it was returned with the pages missing.