U2/FEZ: ‘We’re on pilgrimage, barefoot, and we truly don’t know where the music will take us.’ @U2.COM has posted an English translation of an article from the Moroccan French-language weekly paper TelQuel giving the inside skinny (including a Q&A with Bono) about U2’s recent two-week stay in Morrocco’s spiritual capital, Fez. It says, in part: “I feel as if it’s never been this easy to write,” Bono testified, a little before the group’s departure from the Merinid capitol. “Fez is... Read more

Eddie Izzard explains Stonehenge, Pagans “We had Pagans. They were into sex, death and religion in an interesting nighttime-tele kind of way.” Read more

TODAY IN GOD:RELIGION NEWS BITES FOR YOUR SNACKING PLEASURE ____________________________________________________________________________________ Biblical sex — it could knock your socks off Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. For your love is better than wine. Song of Songs 1:2 Almost everything we think we know about the Bible and sex is wrong. Instead of being a list of sexual shalt-nots, the Bible contains so much graphic eroticism that parents may want to keep the sacred text away from youth... Read more

Eddie Izzard Explains Religion We expect you’ll be seeing quite a lot of Mizzter Izzard this week as GG has been running around the office in hysterics since discovering a bunch of his clips on YouTube earlier today. Wait. We hear something. Sounds like a wounded dolfin. Nope. Just God Girl again cackling in the other room. Here she comes now … laughing and muttering something about the Druids. Better stay tuned. GGHQ Read more

TODAY IN GOD:RELIGION NEWS BITES FOR YOUR SNACKING PLEASURE ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fewer baby boys being circumcised in the U.S. SAN FRANCISCO, California — On the eighth day of her son’s life, Julia Query welcomed friends and family to celebrate his birth and honor their Jewish heritage. But there was no crying, no scalpel, no blood, no “mohel” _ the person who traditionally performs ritual circumcisions in the Jewish faith. In fact, Elijah Rose’s “bris” differed markedly from the ceremony long used... Read more

COUNTING MY BLESSINGS: No. 1, My Garage Oy. Read more

MONDAY MORNING YIKES!:Catholic ‘witch-hunt’ to expose gay clergy Patricia McKeever does not like to be photographed. She does not like people to know where she lives and prefers to communicate with the outside world by letter or e-mail. But, from the security of her home, the 58-year-old former secondary school teacher has co-ordinated a relentless campaign to name and shame gay Roman Catholic priests. Her newsletter , Catholic Truth, has so far confronted up to a dozen priests about their... Read more

TODAY IN GOD:RELIGION NEWS BITES FOR YOUR SNACKING PLEASURE ____________________________________________________________________________________ Where have you gone, Rev. Jim Ignatowski?Pete Hamill reviews a new history of taxis in New York City, discusses the rise of individualism and the demise of the hacker/philosopherTaxi drivers are the most enduring oppressed minority in New York City history. Race, ethnicity and religion are not sources of the oppression. It lies entirely in the nature of the work. Trapped for about 12 hours each day in the worst... Read more

SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT I just read a quote from one of the attendees at Ruth Bell Graham’s memorial service today (Saturday 6/15) in Montreat,North Carolina that made me stop, think and reevaluate.It’s a challenge, both spiritually and socially, to be more than we are. To let it not be about us. To get out of our own way. Speaking of the late Mrs. Graham, who passed into the next life on Thursday at the age of 87, Ruth Gleeson,... Read more

TODAY IN GOD:RELIGION NEWS BITES FOR YOUR SNACKING PLEASURE ____________________________________________________________________________________ Travolta faces gay boycott over Scientology Scientologist John Travolta is facing a gay boycott of his new movie. Travolta turned himself into a chubby female for the role of Edna Turnblad in the remake of Hairspray. But activists are calling for the community to shun the film, alleging that Scientology is homophobic. “It’s well known that Scientology has operated reparative therapy clinics to try and ‘cure’ gays,” said Washington Blade... Read more