(H/T) Who knew that Bill Cosby and Victoria Osteen would be a match made in heaven? Or is it hell? Either way, you know what I’m talking about, right? That hilarious video of Bill Cosby “responding” to Victoria Osteen’s declaration that “When we obey God…we’re doing it for ourselves.” Funny, funny stuff. Obviously, a lot of people weren’t too happy with what Mrs. Osteen had to say. But me? I found it refreshing. Not because I agree. Oh dear gawd,... Read more
Leave it to fundamentalist Christians to take the fun out of everything. Get it?? Yeah, I know. Terrible joke. Sorry. To be fair, the fun probably evaporated from the Ice Bucket Challenge a few weeks ago, but that didn’t stop Evangelist Anita Fuentes from smothering the dying embers of merriment by exposing the truth of the Ice Bucket Challenge. What truth is that? We’ve all been participating in a secret Satanic ritual. Little did you know that when you dumped... Read more
Every once and while I stumble across a terrible Jesus shirt and it leads down a rabbit hole of more terrible Jesus shirts and then I have to share them with you because I can’t be alone in my “Holy cow, I can’t believe this exists.” Today, I continue that tradition with not 1, not 2, not even 3, but 5 more terrible Jesus t-shirts. I know, I know. I’m so generous. (Oh, and if you’d like to purchase one... Read more
Abandoned churches being transformed into something new isn’t really, well, new. Old churches have become everything from luxury apartments to clubs to a mall…and sometimes two out of the three. If I remember correctly, there was a big controversy several years ago when I still lived in Nashville about an old church that was going to be turned into a strip club. I know, big shocker people got upset about that. But often people aren’t too happy about the apartment... Read more
Hey Kirk, I saw the preview for your new movie Saving Christmas. And that epic movie poster. And I have to be honest, man. Your candy cane of holy wrath stirred my soul in a profound way. I mean, it takes real conviction to speak up and fight to “put Christ back in Christmas” when Christ never actually went anywhere and no church anywhere in America has stopped or even been asked to stop celebrating Christ at Christmas. You’ve... Read more
The only thing that’s surprising about this clip is that it took so long for Pat Robertson to weigh in on the tragic death of Robin Williams. (At least I assume this is recent because I haven’t seen it before today.) He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named infamously claimed that Robin Williams died because he chose not to be joyful. So what’s Robertson’s take on the situation? Robin Williams died because he wasn’t a Christian. Had Williams been a Christian, Robertson says, he wouldn’t have... Read more
(H/T Nathan Rupert, Flickr) Faith. It may be one of the most misunderstood subjects in the Church today. Why? Because I don’t think most of us give a lot of thought to what faith is really about. I don’t mean we don’t think about what we believe or why we believe it, although some of us don’t do much of the latter. What I mean is I don’t think most of us ever really stop to think what it means... Read more
When you google “pastor,” the results you get – at least in the news section – are typically not very positive. And that’s a understatement. Obviously, scandalous news sells better than “hey, look at the great things this person is doing,” but the sheer volume of pastors being arrested daily for awful things is, well, awful. So, when you come across a piece of good news it tends to stick out and when you’re a foodie like me who’s also... Read more
I’m proud to be part of a denomination (the Church of the Nazarene) that has ordained women since our founding over a century ago. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for far too many denominations across the country and around the world. But one Nashville area pastor is taking a bold stand and risking his job to end the sanctified subjugation of women in his denomination. Pastor Frank Stevenson of St. Luke Primitive Baptist Church recently took the bold step... Read more
One of the biggest challenges to faith is the problem of pain. In other words, why does God allow so much suffering when it seems that God could rid the entire world of suffering if God chose to? The problem, of course, extends to prayer and leaves us wondering why some of our prayers go unanswered. Theologians have spent centuries trying to explain why the God who heals sometimes, other times apparently chooses not to heal people who pray for... Read more
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