Japanese monks put their grace and inner beauty under the spotlight as they participated in a Most Handsome Monks contest on August 22. Spectators voted for the participant they found most inspiring, after the monks walked down a runway, performed in a talent show and answered questions in a Q&A session. Aigen Yokoyama, a monk from Chiba prefecture and an avid karate practitioner, split Read more
As part of high school sex-ed programmes around the world, teachers give infant simulators to their female students, who care for the robot baby over the course of a few days. Janette Collins, a London-based youth counselor told the Financial Times last October. “It’s the very few girls who score really well that you have Read more
The FBI thinks that Lyle Jeffs, the polygamist religious leader accused in a multimillion-dollar food stamp scheme, disappeared from house arrest by coating his ankle monitor in olive oil and sliding it off. That explanation may fly with non-believers, but in court documents filed last week, Jeffs’s lawyer has put forth a divine reason for Read more
A fragment from what is believed to be the True Cross of Christ, has been stolen from a church in California. Dominican Father Michael Hurley, pastor of St. Dominic’s Church in San Francisco told CNA. “We just want it back.” Catholic tradition holds that St. Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine, found the Cross during Read more
Church Curmudgeon may be one of the most cantankerous guys on Twitter, but he’s also one of the most hilarious. His complaints range from sinful dancing to boring homilies to music that’s too loud to shenanigans from the “youths” at church. While the character himself is actually Southern Baptist, it turns out grumpy old men Read more
A remarkably unlined 120-year-old monk says he is the oldest man to have ever lived puts his longevity down to no sex or spices, and daily yoga. The Hindu monk Swami Sivananda was born on August 8, 1896, according to his passport. If true, his life would have spanned three centuries. But despite his apparent Read more
Trump critic and Christian, Dani Messerschmidt, and her boyfriend Greg Karber, have written a quiz to to challenge Christians who are thinking of voting for Donald Trump. “If any Christians are on the fence about voting for Donald Trump, just pick any Trump quote and try to imagine Jesus saying it,” tweeted Messerschidt. With an Read more
Basically, most people’s wedding vows have the same gist, right? “I’ll love you forever” say Bella Ellwood-Clayton “I wonder, knowing what we do now, 10 years later, what new set of vows would we make?” she asks. Here are the first of 17 things she would say now: 1. I will forgive you, endlessly. Partnerships of Read more