So, perhaps you’re aware, but the US government is giving each of its tax paying citizens an Economic Stimulus Package. For me, this means $600 of seemingly free money. I don’t begin to understand all of the economic ramifications of said money, but I do know that it creates a bit of a [...]

Is it appropriate for a church leader to publicly question Christianity and the Bible? That’s apparently what happened when Kent Dobson, a respected Bible teacher here in my corner of Michigan, appeared on a Discovery Channel program that raised questions about the historicity of the Bible. Dobson resigned under pressure from the school board and [...]

Keith Green was one of the most popular contemporary Christian musicians in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s. He and 10 others (including two of his children) tragically died in a plane crash in 1982.
I had the privilege of interviewing him for a music magazine. He was truly a musical prophet, a musical genius with a rough [...]

The first video is the GodMen promo that the organization puts out. The second is an ABC news Nightline report on the event:

To me, this seems like Promise Keepers with more electric guitars, which—for the most part—will probably be a good thing for a lot of the attendees.
Since I’ve never attended a [...]

Everybody’s favorite polling group, Barna, has released their tithing numbers for 2007. Short story: not too many people tithe in the United States.
Whether they believe in the principle of tithing or not, few Americans give away that much money. In 2007, the research revealed that just 5% of adults tithed.
Not surprisingly, some population groups [...]

We’ve posted a new poll about the American Idol contestants performing Shout to the Lord as a closing song. Read this post to watch the video of it if you missed it. Feel free to discuss it in the comments on this post.
A quick recap from last week. We asked you about [...]

Trevin Wax relates some of the thoughts he picked up from Robert Wuthnow’s book After the Baby Boomers about how to reach out to young adults (18 to twenty-somethings).
His main points are in bold and I’ve provided a short summary of each of his summaries, but please read his whole post if you’re [...]

Apologies for another short link, but this essay about the quest to discover President Lincoln’s spiritual beliefs caught my eye today. Lincoln has been “claimed” by Christians, non-Christians, and everyone in between as a proponent of their views, but apparently it is quite difficult to discern what he actually believed about God, prayer, and Christianity.

Well, now the internet is telling me that Gorbachev is claiming to still be an atheist, and that rumors of his undercover faith are greatly exaggerated. That’ll teach me to believe what I read online, and then blog about it. Next time I’ll try to follow my own advice.

It’s been about a year since I have seen this, yet it was still good for a chuckle. This was originally published in November of 2005. It’s still quite funny, still kind of true (and wildly false at the same time), and still quite tongue-in-cheek.
From Purgatorio: You Might Be Emerging If…