Auckland’s St Matthews in the City is not the only Church whose Billboard that causes controversy A witty, provocative billboard from an Ontario Anglican church went viral last tweek after being posted on Reddit. Toby Manhire, in his column in the New Zealand Listener, though that this is as good an occasion as any to collect the Read more
My 15 minutes of fame, courtesy of an article in the Washington Post featuring me as an atheist who prays to an invented God in order to facilitate my participation in a 12-step recovery program, provoked a little tempest in the teapot of atheist blog postings and commentary. My fellow atheists have suggested, not always politely, that Read more
There has been The outbreak of measles in a faith-healing megachurch Eagle Mountain International Church. EMIC co-pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons denied that she ever opposed vaccination (which is pretty much true. Her co-pastor and husband George Pearsons attributed the end of the measles outbreak not to vaccines, but to a two-minute long communal prayer he Read more
A coffin-shaped dunny will be removed from a far north Queensland cemetery and laid to rest in a nearby paddock. The curiosity, at the township of Millaa Millaa, doesn’t meet building standards and has attracted a number of complaints. Continue reading
The last years of the long papacy of John Paul II may have led us to forget the younger man. This video of John Paul’s visit to Australia shows him dancing with young people at the end of a liturgy. There is also a photograph of him hold one of Australia’s national icons. Have a look
The issue of Christian missionaries proselytising in India has taken a bizarre turn after a church in the eastern state of Jharkhand installed a statue of Mother Mary and Baby Jesus depicted as “tribals,” the indigenous people of the state. With dark brown complexions and sporting traditional Indian tribal clothing (white sari with red border, Read more
In the 1970s, Linda Sim applied to the Singapore Armed Forces to be a front-line soldier, but was told women could take up only clerical positions. The Singapore Police Force also turned her down as she was too petite. Undeterred, the gutsy woman took up taekwondo and eventually earned a black belt. Then she heard Read more
You have heard of Urban Myths… they are commonly help beliefs that have no basic in reality. Once established they hard hard to discount. Even when we know they are not true we like to believe that they are… nothing like a good story. There are similar myths regarding religion.. often repeated and never challenged. Read more
John Barron says he thought I’d write in this Twitter post, “Not so much because I feel a need to offer proper answers, more so because I am always amused at what Atheists offering these kinds of questions or challenges believe they are ‘difficult’ or substantive challenges to Christianity. It makes one wonder, if these are Read more
For many, being a Catholic nowadays is like saying you’re a Star Trek fan. They feel the need to immediately caveat it with a denial that they’re a “trekkie.” I hear so many people talk of their Catholicism in a similar way. Here’s some of the more popular sentence I’ve heard start with “I’m a Read more