Holiness Reeducation

I found both of these items out shopping last week and was disturbed by both of them.   I was disturbed by the dancing Rabbi because of how much I wanted one. Good to know that commercialization of religious holidays has extended outside of Christianity to Judaism as well. The WWJD movie just made me [...]

This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of church doing. Mars Hill Church in Seattle pastored by well known, much discussed, and certainly controversial pastor Mark Driscoll recently sent a cease and desist order to another church with the same name because they had copyrighted it. What? That deserves another [...]

Today my ramblings take the form of YouTube videos that are indeed random, entertaining, mystifying or simply appropriate for the moments. So here you go, spend some time thinking about these. An Interesting Worship Experiement My buddy sent me this link. He entitled it The Worst Worship Ever. I won’t say that, but I do [...]

The rapture didn’t happen, only this week it’s news. Everybody on the planet has had ample opportunity now to make their prerequisite rapture jokes. I have a bunch of them but they don’t serve much of a purpose now. The world has had yet another laugh at the expense of Christians doing stupid things. Excellent, [...]

Usually when churches redo or have parodies of popular culture it makes me cringe. Not this ad from Cokesbury done by some Princeton Seminary students about Cokesbury, this made me smile.  

Every pastor has played this scenario through their minds and wondered what they would do. BALTIMORE — Baltimore was buzzing Tuesday after a struggling parish received a winning lottery ticket in the collection plate — giving the church a $30,000 windfall. Maryland Lottery officials confirmed the anonymous donation, made on March 13 with a scratch-off [...]

A Polish Catholic church has a vial of the late Pope John Paul II’s blood and is about to put it on display. Continuing the long practice of displaying relics in the church, this church is actually going to encase the vial in crystal and install it into an altar. Sionko said the idea came [...]

You have to admire the shear audacity of this church burglar in Montgomery County, MD (not far from where I grew up). This burglar broke into the church, stole a small safe, looked at porn on a computer, went to the church freezer found some hamburger meat and cooked himself up a meal, and stole [...]

Fellowship Church a megachurch based out of Grapevine, TX has been drawing in crowds at all of its campuses with a 3-D Christmas Eve service. Further evidence that pastor’s will try anything to get a crowd, the 3-D services have already been drawing thousands. First, they are running Christmas Eve services for a week? Secondly, [...]

This one is just awful. Christmas attitudes land businesses on naughty-or-nice lists at First Baptist Dallas’ ‘Grinch Alert’ website 11:41 PM CST on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 By SAM HODGES / The Dallas Morning News samhodges@dallasnews.comFirst Baptist Church of Dallas is making a list this Christmas, and lots of people will be checking it. The [...]