Thursday Godbytes

Members of Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, Virginia are lifting their eyes to the heavens a lot these days. No, they’re not being pious: they’re looking out for golf balls from a uncomfortably close-by driving green. It’s a situation that’s not exactly par for the course, you might say. Eh? Eh? The Jewish Daily […]

Members of Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, Virginia are lifting their eyes to the heavens a lot these days. No, they’re not being pious: they’re looking out for golf balls from a uncomfortably close-by driving green. It’s a situation that’s not exactly par for the course, you might say. Eh? Eh?

The Jewish Daily Forward reports on the strange (but apparently true) story of Hitler’s Jewish Psychic.

Comedian Stephen Colbert yucked it up last night with Father Jim Martin, the official chaplain of the Colbert nation. You can also cheek out Becky Garrison‘s interview with Martin and his understanding of “sublime silliness.”


Religion Dispatches asks, “Scientology: All-American or Aging Hoax?

A Tibetan buddhist leader is asking disgruntled believers in China to stop self-immolating as a form of protest, urging the faithful to pursue alternative forms of activism.

Keeping with the sports theme: our picture of the day comes from Jesus Needs New PR, which gives us a taste of ‘Pious Playing’. No word on what a ‘Demonic Defense’ would look like, though.

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