Outchurched

Dear Christians,

Do Katherine Harris’ comments represent your views?

MIAMI (AP) - U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is “a lie’’ and God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.’’

The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians […]

Our Bretheren over at Stupid Church People have been on the frontline of dealing with comment spam and flame wars started by ignorant Jackass-for-Jesus types.

As a public service, I would like to help the Unchurched understand the meaning and true intent of a particular e-mail that Steve posted. I’ve added points of clarification to […]

Stupid Church People produced an exciting video, giving the church van an overhaul… Pimp My Ride, Jesus-style.

I had several thoughts while watching this video:

“look at this dirty, white, 15-passenger van.” Racism? Oooh, look at all that electrical tape! That’s not actually Jesus… that’s (gasp) JOSH! - Matthew 24:5

Wow, I can’t believe all the swearing… (Warning: […]

Think Progress has a good read regarding how today (August 22nd) has had significance for Neoconservatives and other Fundamentalist Extremists:

For months, neoconservatives have been pushing for regime change in Iran. In their latest effort to beat the war drums and undermine diplomacy, they are attaching great significance to August 22 – the date Iran said […]

From Media Matters: Colson again blamed American “decadence” for inspiring radical Islamic terrorism

Summary: Charles W. Colson again suggested that America and “the West” were inflaming radical Islam through “our decadence,” using as example an Islamic polemicist believed to have inspired Osama bin Laden.

In the August 16 edition of his daily BreakPoint radio commentary, Prison Fellowship […]

I used to sit around and wonder to myself “What Operating System Would Jesus Use?” (WOSWJU[tm]?) According to the folks at What Would Jesus Download, the answer is obvious:

Ubuntu Christian Edition is a free, open source operating system geared towards Christians. It is based on the popular Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based […]

Jason Calacanis posts:

Walt Mossberg and I had an interesting debate recently over users rights and copyright in the modern era. These are complex issues and we went back and forth challenging each other on various scenarios in which users, DRM, and copyright were colliding. Today I had one and i thought I would put the […]

An outstanding column by Robyn E. Blumner of the St. Petersburg Times:

Thanks to President Bush and his plan to Christianize the nation’s provision of social services, one’s relationship with Jesus Christ has become a real resume booster. As author Michelle Goldberg reports in her new book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Bush has […]

Pastor says he was unaware of church building requirements

Had things gone as planned, up to 500 people would have been crowding into the Cedar Grove Methodist Church near Thorsby today celebrating a job well done in the do-it-yourself construction of their new house of worship.

Instead, an 80-foot span of the new church’s roof sits in […]

The Daily Show takes on Armageddon:

“At least a couple of those four horsemen of the Apocolypse are saddling up as we speak.”

“156! My God… that’s arbitrarily terrifying! I mean, just the other day it was 152… now it’s at 156! My Rapture Index only says 149!”

Big hat tip to BongoP’o’ndit from Recurring […]