God may not be dead, but he’s on life support in Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland according to a group of physicists who met recently in Dallas.

The No. 2 official in the Diocese of Superior (Wisc.) has been put on leave after allegations that he funneled $10,000 from a charity fund to feed a personal gambling habit. A Catholic school outside Philly has settled with a professor who was ousted because he was gay and didn’t tell them that he wasn’t a real Roman Catholic priest.

The Forward profiles Indiana Rep. Andre Carson, the “other Muslim” in Congress, and WaPo reports that evangelical icon Chuck Colson is trying to spiritually clone himself before he’s called to the great hereafter.

Proud evangelical Tim Pawlenty is dipping his toes in the shallow end to test the waters for a 2012 GOP presidential bid. Catching up from a few days ago, the NYT sketches a spiritual profile of N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his on-again off-again relationship with the Catholic Church.

If you’re a SWM who’s ISO gainful employment in an evangelical pulpit, best of luck to you. Then again, maybe you could meet someone down in Texas (of course it’s Texas) where they’re pole dancing for Jesus. But even God couldn’t do it alone, according to one British theologian: Yahweh had a wife named Asherah.

Florida Pastor Terry Jones says he didn’t break a promise not to burn a Quran (even though they did on Sunday, at his church) because he was simply presiding at International Judge the Quran Day; that whole aborted International Burn a Quran Day thing was something altogether different.

A beauty queen who wants to be the first Muslim to represent Britain in the Miss Universe pageant is now getting death threats. SNL alum Victoria Jackson is on a tear against the gays on Glee, saying they make a “mockery of Christians.”