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 [...]

I’m not Canadian, so possibly comparing Jesus to the mounted police is a deeply powerful simile I’ll just never understand…
Jesus is a Friend of Mine by Sonseed:

Zap!
Thoughts?
[HT: Burnside Writer’s Collective]

In the discussion thread about Christian urban legends yesterday, commenter jennabee25 called to my attention something I somehow tragically missed out on during my childhood in the 80s: Turmoil in the Toybox, apparently a Christian book exposing the sinister occult truths behind He-Man, the Smurfs, and, uh, the Care Bears (!).
I thought this sounded too [...]

Have you seen this email that’s making the rounds?
This is a Thomas Kinkade painting. It’s rumored to carry a miracle! The water is supposed to be running.
They say if you pass this on, you will receive a miracle.

This is a simple test: IF YOU LOVE JESUS, SEND THIS TO AT [...]

Multi-million-dollar medium, James Van Praagh, is out with a new book: Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side.
In it, he reveals that the set of TV’s Ghost Whisperer is haunted and that Britney Spears has two ghosts “attached” to her. (Hmmm? Could it be the ghosts of that head-shaving incident [...]

It’s rare that I have a chance to expose my truly geeky interests here on TC, so when something semi-relevant crosses my RSS reader (like the old Klingon version of the Bible chestnut), you’ll have to forgive me for indulging. So file this under strange but interesting:
If you read a lot of science fiction, you [...]

Have you read the old Jack Chick evangelism tract Somebody Goofed? BoingBoing today is talking about an amazing animated version of the tract:

The animated version was created in 1997 by Syd Garon and Rodney Ascher; the BoingBoing post has some additional links and commentary. The animation is weirdly compelling and a bit creepy in a [...]

From a marketing perspective rebranding Lent as a Christian Ramadan makes total sense:
Dutch Catholics have re-branded the Lent fast as the “Christian Ramadan” in an attempt to appeal to young people who are more likely to know about Islam than Christianity.
The Catholic charity Vastenaktie, which collects for the Third World across the Netherlands during the [...]

The Westboro Baptist Church has “graced” the pages of Think Xian before. But I was sent the following and wanted to pass it on…not that I think there are any sympathizers here. (Although some may agree with their beliefs but not their methods.)
Apparently WBC was “inspired” by the soap operish murder scenario of the pregnant [...]

Tell me this doesn’t sound like fodder for a bad comedy sketch: seven people were injured during a brawl between Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. It wasn’t lofty theological differences that sparked this particular religious conflict, however:
The brawl apparently began when Greek Orthodox priests set up ladders [...]