Friday Godbytes

CNN reports that the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi – killed just yesterday by revolutionaries – apparently practiced a “renegade” version of Islam. Folks at Relevant Magazine and the Washington Post are asking whether or not Jesus would be in the streets with the Occupy Wall Street protestors – or if he would protest at […]

CNN reports that the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi – killed just yesterday by revolutionaries – apparently practiced a “renegade” version of Islam.

Folks at Relevant Magazine and the Washington Post are asking whether or not Jesus would be in the streets with the Occupy Wall Street protestors – or if he would protest at all.

Megapastor Mark Driscoll is head of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington. He apparently likes he church’s name so much that he had it copyrighted, and – according to blogger Tony Jones – is now sending cease-and-decist letters to all other churches that use that same title (a group that includes several small churches, seminaries and even fellow megapastor Rob Bell’s Mars Hill Church in Michigan). Legal awkwardness in 3âÂ?¦2âÂ?¦1âÂ?¦


Houston, Texas has a lot of big, wealthy churches. Some of them may or may not be ugly. The Houston Press decided to list the 6 they found most visually unappealing.

Finally, I don’t know if y’all heard, but today is apparently the end of the world…again. We felt that there was a particularly fitting Comic of the Day from XKCD for this occasion (math majors, anyone?):

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