USA Today asks: can God take a joke? USA Today thinks God can (have you seen a platypus?), but we’re curious: what’s your favorite religion joke?

It looks like all the religious groups are getting in on Occupy Wall Street these days. You can head over to the Huffington Post to hear a Buddhist take on the protests, or zip on over to Religion Dispatches to hear about “Occupy Judaism.”

CNN reports that international pressure to spare the Christian pastor sentenced to death in Iran isn’t necessarily helping.

Relevant Magazine explores why (and how) several American political candidates are claiming that God “told” them to run.

Blogger Rachel Held Evans let her readers ask an Orthodox Christian whatever they wanted. If you ever desired to more about Orthodox Christianity, the resulting interview is worth a peak.

Finally, your Picture of the Day comes from Jesus Needs New PR, which found that some seminary test questions have more than one answer…

Laughing Jesus image courtesy John Anakron.