The bass player from heavy-metal band Megadeth (I’m assuming the names “Superdeath,” Death,” and “Severely Injured” were already taken) is going to a Lutheran Seminary. Because, you know, Luther ROCKED.
Texas Governor and evangelical Christian Rick Perry is dropping out of the race for president today. This puts some evangelicals in a pickle (although, admittedly, the Evangelical gathering in Texas last week endorsed Rick Santorum, not Perry), and Terry Moran put it this way (via the Washington Post):
Relatedly, blogger Tony Jones asks: Is “Evangelical” the New “Jewish”?
And the Coin of the Year goes to…Israel and their depiction of Jonah and the Whale!
Your Series of Awesome Photographs of the Day is a beautiful slideshow of the Tibetan Buddhist Kalachakra, a festival of teachings and meditations:
And keeping with the Tibetan Theme, your Video of the Day is of a group of young Tibetan monks praying and meditating in a Nepalese monastery:
POKHARA MONASTERY from warmeye on Vimeo.
– Jack “MegaBlog” Jenkins
(image – which is actually not Megadeth – courtesy Cecil via wikimedia commons)
