Outchurched

Mr Garrison shares the Contemporary Spirit of Christmas in song and dance… and uh, wow, just wow. (You probably don’t want to check this one out while you’re at work… or uh… if you were ever seriously concerned about the uh, “War on Christmas.”) It’s very relevant social commentary.

Ok, I’m headed back to […]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours from Outchurched!

Thank you so much, Outchurched friends, for your input, comments, and encouragement over the past year. I’m hopeful that in the coming year that we’ll be able to take this blog in a new direction (though you should have no fear… the snark and […]

Street Prophets has a pretty funny post which covers “Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the Differences between Christmas and Chanukkah (But were Afraid to Ask):”

Of course, we are secretly pleased that many of the beautiful Christmas carols were composed and written by our tribal brethren. And don’t Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond […]

From the Associated Press (I swear I’m not making this up):

WARSAW, Poland — Lawmakers have drawn up a resolution naming Jesus Christ as the honorary king of Poland, but have failed to win support from the country’s powerful Roman Catholic church.

Lawmakers for the ruling Law and Justice party and League of Polish Families […]

Yup, the same set of folks who bitch and moan about how video games are violent, evil destructors of culture and morality have basically come out with a video game which is a violent, evil destructor of culture and morality. Personally, I think what’s shocking about this fact is that it’s taken so long […]

A fact of internet life is that your friends and aquaintances will e-mail you stuff like this:

Subject: Help from Above A friend sent this one to me, and I thought it well worth posting:

This is one I have never seen before, but explains it with simple language. An old Indian chief constantly spoke of the Lord Jesus […]

Here’s a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion for that person in your life who says absurd things like “the Founding Fathers were all Christians, and meant for America to be a Christian nation:”

Give them a big helping of “Shut the Fuck Up.”

Print the following texts and put them in an envelope for that “special someone.”

From the […]

From the Times Record [it must be a slow day for] News:

It started out as a simple class assignment at John Tower Elementary School: write a letter to Santa Claus. But when one parent learned of the project and asked if her child could write a letter to Jesus instead, she was surprised at what she […]

This is remarkably stupid:

Before David Paszkiewicz got to teach his accelerated 11th-grade history class about the United States Constitution this fall, he was accused of violating it. Shortly after school began in September, the teacher told his sixth-period students at Kearny High School that evolution and the Big Bang were not scientific, that dinosaurs were aboard […]