Not surprising, the HBO special, The Trial of Ted Haggard, seems to put his former church on trial rather than the pastor who bought sex and meth from a male prostitute.
Lee Grady writes:
”. . . the tragic flaw of The Trials of Ted Haggard is [director Alexandra] Pelosi’s attempt to blame New Life Church for [...]

You’ve probably heard of the famed magic duo Penn and Teller.  If you know them well, then you understand that Penn Jillette, the one that talks, is a big time atheist.  Phil Cooke had this video on his blog where Penn is talking about a recent experience where a Christian gave him a copy of [...]

When the headline popped up on my yahoo news that Oprah was at 200 pounds, I immediately clicked on the link.  I’m not a celebrity stalker or a daytime talk show addict, but when I taught a college communications course Oprah was one of our subjects.
I have an empathic view of Oprah.  I subscribe to [...]

Have you heard of the “20/80 rule”—the idea that 20% of people in a typical church do 80% of the work? Obviously the exact ratio will vary from church to church, but it sounds about right to me as I think about the churches I’ve attended. In most churches there seems to be a core [...]

A while back, I posted about Instant Grants from the blog Urban Prankster. Recently, they posted about an LA improv group who spent some time to rain money down on the heads of unsuspecting pedestrians.
Watch the video for the general gist:

Aerial Philanthropy – GuerilLA from David Kartsonis on Vimeo.
There’s something undeniably cool about this: people [...]

Ran across an interesting book review today of Sam Anderson’s Five Lives, which charts the lives of five famous cultural rebels: Arthur Rimbaud, Emily Post, Hugh Hefner, John Lennon, and Eminem. It’s a motley crew, but their life trajectories share many elements in common. All lacked attentive fathers in their youth, and all burst onto [...]

My grandmother passed away last month at a hospice in Portland, Oregon. Nanna Mary was always petite. But in the final weeks of her life she was tiny, a shrunken version of the vigorous little English fighter who had served in the Royal Women’s Army in World War II and went on to travel the [...]

Out of Ur recently came across a pamphlet advocating castration. They had this to say:
Apart from wrestling with the best way to handle the growing epidemic of sexual immorality within the church, Mr. Cheney’s pamphlet should make us stop and think once again about the ramifications of our hermeneutical approach to Scripture.
And here’s one of [...]

A few weeks back I asked what your picture of Jesus looked like. Recently, I looked at the sidebar of Matt Stone’s blog, Glocal Christianity—a goldmine of Christian and religious imagery. He’s organized the images into culturally distinct sections that range from Christian Art | Esoteric to Christian Art | Asian.
Here’s one of the [...]

The Christian Post reports on the Outlook100 fastest growing churches in the United States. Here are some excerpts from the article:
Topping the fifth annual list again this year was Lakewood Church in Houston with 43,500 attendants, followed by Second Baptist Church in the same city with 23,659 and then North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, [...]