I’m not one to pick on a man when he’s down, but when you take a picture like this you’re inviting some sort of response. Then again, if you’re featured in GQ and you have a reality TV show are you really that down?
Here’s the link to the GQ interview he gave in case you want to read it. And just for fun here’s what the same picture would look like if Craig Robinson from The Office
By ANDREA MAGRATH
They’ve conquered clothing, fragrance, books and reality television, and now the Kardashian have created their own church.
Speaking to Piers Morgan, Kim Kardashian has revealed how she funded a church set up last year in Calabasas by her mother Kris Jenner.
The revelation came after Morgan asked the reality star if she knew how much she was worth, to which Kim replied: ‘Whatever it is, I give 10 per cent away to the church and that’s what I was taught. Every year. Absolutely.’
My friend Brannon, who hosts a great blog called Sanctifying Worship, came across this story on Slate. I think it’s a fantastic example of the “have it your way” American Jesus.
Using Christ’s page as a guide to the online encyclopedia’s ten-year history.
By Chris Wilson
At 1:12 a.m. on March 3, 2001, Jimmy Wales created a page for Jesus on a three-month-old site called Wikipedia. “Jesus Christ is a central figure in Christianity,” he wrote. The site’s co-founder followed with a petition to his fellow first-generation editors: “I fear great controversy if this encyclopedia entry isn’t written well, and so I think we should all plunge in and duke it out quickly.” Four months later, a user called “Hiram” answered the call, changing “a central figure” to “the central figure” and writing a respectable four-paragraph summary of the Biblical story of Jesus. “Added some details. Not enough, I know,” he noted in the comments to his edit.
Wikipedia turned 10 years old this week, and perhaps no entry better captures its chaotic ascendency than that of Jesus Christ. What follows is a brief history of Wikipedia Jesus—his test, trials, and the chaotic world into which he was born.
Jesus had a quiet adolescence, reared by well-behaved editors. Users fiddled with sentences and paragraphs, expanding on references and adding a broader accounting of his role in the Judaic religions. He was briefly promoted to the “most central figure in Christianity,” but was restored to mere centrality in the next edit. The “Jews for Jesus” made a brief appearance on his page in August of 2002, but were removed with a polite explanation as to why. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger occasionally ducked in to brush up little disputes.
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A self-proclaimed former meth addict hopes to spread her drug prevention message around Manteca with the help of an ice cream truck, but her criminal past is getting in the way.
Olivia Lopez-Grajeda calls her business “Ice Cream For Jesus.” By looking at her van, currently sitting in a bakery parking lot, you’ll see message.
“My goal, I have on the back ‘Meth Destroys, God Restores,’ is to go out there and give hope to the hopeless,” said Lopez-Grajeda.
She’s not afraid to talk about her past addiction that she says was triggered by the loss of a child or her past criminal record, but it’s impacting where she drives her ice cream truck. Manteca’s Chief of Police rejecting her permit request based on it, according to the Manteca Bulletin.
“I’m trying to start my own business and they’re telling me ‘no’ because of my past. Well, I payed debt. I did my time for my crime,” said Lopez-Grajeda.
A spokesman for the department says this is pretty routine if someone has a record. Lopez-Grajeda will have a chance to take this up with the city council, which she plans on doing.
(Found at KTXL-TV)
**Unfortunately that is not the actual truck pictured above, although that would be amazing and I would definitely buy ice cream from that ice cream truck.
Believe it or not Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. If you’re tired of the same old box of chocolates or dinner and a movie then might we suggest Date Night at the Creation Museum.
Seriously. We’re not making this up.
After all, who needs Luther Vandross
And fear not music lovers! Rejoice! For you will also be “treated to a concert” by “certified master guitarist Ray Cummins!” (That’s actually him below)
All this can be yours for only $39.95 per person! So don’t wait, call today and make your reservation!
There’s really no way I could top the opening line from this article about the Discovery Channel’s newest project, so I’ll just let you read the news directly from the source itself:
“Discovery Channel is teaming with the Vatican for an unprecedented new series hunting the deadliest catch of all: Demons.
‘The Exorcist Files’ will recreate stories of real-life hauntings and demonic possession, based on cases investigated by the Catholic Church. The project includes access into the Vatican’s case files, as well as interviews with the organization’s top exorcists — religious experts who are rarely seen on television. ”
To read the rest of the article, click here.
Nathan Clarke and the folks at Fourth Line Films just released the newest trailer for Wrestling for Jesus: The Tale of T-Money and it’s even better than the first one.
Check it out and stay tuned for info on the film’s release.
Are you tired of your boring, old, traditional Baptist church? Are the Pentecostals too establishment for you? Maybe names like Holy Trinity and Grace Community just don’t do it for you?
Then, maybe you should check out Scum of the Earth Church
By Josiah M. Hesse, Westword
Tucked behind a 7-Eleven and a liquor store, a historic church building rises above the Santa Fe art district. Commissioned in 1881 by former Colorado territorial governor Alexander Hunt, the building was once owned and restored by artist Lonnie Hanzon; you enter through a 300-year-old antique door from Paris, then pass under a cosmically decorated ceiling. The under-the-sea-meets-Mardi Gras-in-space theme continues through the bathrooms and hallways, but it co-exists comfortably with the current occupants. One large room holds scattered rows of chairs and a handful of musical instruments strewn about the far end; two upstairs bedrooms are home to a handful of young crust punks; the garage outside hosts a free bicycle workshop every Sunday afternoon.
This is the new base of the Scum of the Earth Church, a radical group of Christian outcasts hoping their brand of spirituality will find a home here, in a place where they can shed the stereotypes of being both Christians and punk-rockers. In the ten years since its inception, Scum members have congregated in everything from basements to coffeehouses to rented churches to homeless shelters. “Sometimes it’s felt like sleeping on someone’s couch for too long,” says Mike Sares, Scum’s 56-year-old senior pastor. Though he’s comfortable in his church’s new home, which Scum purchased in September 2008, he’s quick to point out that owning a building was never the goal. “The church is the people, not the building,” he says.
***Just to be clear, I think what these guys are doing is great. It may not be my particular taste in style, but the church should celebrate moments like these when she finds ways to reclaim the “unclean” things of the world for use in the kingdom of God.***
Maybe your church has $8000 or so laying around and you’d like to put it to good use this Christmas.
Ed Young’s church in Grapevine, TX and Net Church in Oklahoma City, OK both found themselves in this particular situation.
One of them put it to good use:
GRAPEVINE, Texas — A minister known for his innovative preaching has attracted thousands of parishoners to his church’s 3-D Christmas program.
Funky glasses and all.
Fellowship Church in Grapevine on Saturday night premiered Senior Pastor Ed Young’s high-tech “A 3-D Christmas,” to a crowd of about 4,000.
“It’s a little cheesy, but cheese works,” said Young.
More services are planned for Thursday and Christmas Eve at the mega-church, where Young drew attention in 2008 when he challenged married congregants to have sex for seven straight days.
At the weekend, adult and children congregants wore paper-frame glasses with red and blue plastic lenses as they watched three videos put together at a cost of about $8,000, The Dallas Morning News reported. The third video featured a re-created incident from last Christmas, in which Young’s dogs tore up gift packages.
After the 3-D showings, Young preached the Christmas story.
By Matt Dinger
The Bible says that giving is better than receiving, and Pastor Joel Tudman and his Net Church congregation did just that Saturday morning, giving away $15,000 in gasoline in just hours.
“This is all tithes from our people. We wish we could fill up the cars, but we can’t, so we wanted to give everybody $20 worth of free gas,” Tudman said.
At 3 a.m. Saturday, the line began forming, he said. Just off Interstate 35 on NE 36, cars lined the block and were wrapped around Grand Boulevard to NE 30 through the early morning hours.
They planned on starting at 8 a.m., but Tudman said volunteers began gassing up cars about 7:30.
They had anticipated giving away $8,000 worth of gas, but at 9:15 a.m., Tudman laid down an additional $7,000.
This is the second year that The Net Church, 1212 N Hudson Ave., has given away gas for the holidays. Last year, the church gave away $4,000 worth.
At $20 dollars apiece, 750 people were given gas Saturday morning.
