I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN, MRS. DOYLE. A brilliant moment from the annals of “Father Ted,” for your viewing enjoyment . . . Read more

GOD GIRL BUSTED, AGAIN Part deux of the Busted Halo interview has been posted. You’ve been warned. Proceed with caution HERE to read the rest of God Girl’s braindroppings about Godstuff. And for those who missed it yesteday, HERE is part one of the interview with BH’s Bill “Vitamin B” McGarvey. Read more

GODSTUFF: BREAK FREE FROM SUMMER’S SPIRITUAL DOG DAYS It’s as if God’s on vacation. God isn’t, of course. At least that’s what most of our religious traditions tell us. God doesn’t like to take vacations, kind of like my friend Rick. Work work work work work. But when we hit these spiritual dog days of summer, and the city becomes something of a ghost town (especially on the weekends), it feels as if the universe is lollygagging, cutting out early... Read more

POD PEOPLE: THE RELENTLESS PODCASTING CONTINUES…This just in: You can listen to a very recent (like, two days ago recent) interview God Girl gave pastor-and-journalist Brian Orme for an upcoming story in the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News on his groovy blog, Deeper.We’ll let you know when the old-fashioned newspaper story will run. In the meantime, iPod on with your bad selves. (Brian has an iTunes podcast thingy that you can subscribe to, so please do, if you’re so inclined.) WWJMD? Read more

GOD GIRL GETS BUSTED Part 1 of a two-part Q&A between God Girl and the cheeky monkeys at Bustedhalo.com has been unleashed on the unwitting public. You can find it HERE. The angels with dirty faces are threatening to post Part 2 tomorrow, so stay tuned. Our fond thanks to “Vitamin Bill” and the other good Catholics in Hell’s Kitchen! Read more

THE LAUGHING YOGA GUY: SERIOUSLY, NO. MY SIDES. STOP. PLEASE. CAN’T BREATHE. OW.Boo boo boo boo boo booooooooooooooooooooo . . . With great thanks to Perez, Queen of All Media. Read more

ODD ODDS AND ENDS … You can watch my mini-appearance on last weekend’s FoxNewsChannel in an interview with host Brian Williams HERE And yes, that is one of those throughly groovy World Vision Africa t-shirts hiding beneath my conservative(ish) suit jacket. I found mine at the Lucy Barnes boutique on W. 14th in NYC. I haven’t been able to find this particular Africa t-shirt online yet, but you can probably purchase one through the Lucy Barnes store HERE I own... Read more

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND GO BUY THIS ALBUM! RIGHT NOW! REALLY. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? GO GO GO! The voice, which hasn’t changed one iota in more than 40 years, is in itself miraculous. He still hits those notes. Effortlessly. But his nimble lyricy and wondrous vulnerability as a storyteller is remarkable. Remarkable, I tell you. And in this his upteenth album, called “Surprise,” at the age of 64, Paul Simon is, simply, a prophet. And for that,... Read more

INTERFERENCE IS SOMETIMES A VERY GOOD THING … Interference.com is, for my money, the best U2 fan site around (they have everything and usually have something new and different, too … love that). Much to my delight and surprise this morning, a Google alert showed up in my Gmail inbox letting me that someone at Interference was talking about me. Happily, it was Jake Olsen, who wrote a lovely review/story about The God Factor. You can read the whole kit-and-caboodle... Read more

TODAY IN GOD . . . ______________________________________________________________ On July 9, 1896 William Cameron Townsend, the American missionary and linguist, is born in Riverside County near Corona, California . In 1942 Townsend would establish what has become the largest evangelical missionary agency in the world — Wycliffe Bible Translators — named for the first translator of the entire English New Testament, the 14th-century British theologian John Wycliffe. Read more