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How much will some companies pay for product placement in a movie? Well, one Italian movie company couldn't give it away. They weren't even able to show the ultimate user - Jesus - using one of the world's leading global brands, Coke. In the...
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An Italian priest has been thwarted after publicising his plans (whch zipped round the world, whether he liked it or not) to hold an online beauty pageant for nuns. And no, I haven't been nipping at the communion wine: it's true. Apparently Father...
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This is turning into quite a series about vicars. We've had the vicar attacked by dive-bombing seagulls, a vicar disguised as a tramp ignored by his congregation, the priest banning pop songs at funerals, and an ex-Bond-girl-turned-vicar. This time...
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The division created by the ongoing shenanigans about whether gay Christians can be in relationships, be priests or be bishops is unfortunate, as we know, and passions run high on both sides. I don't have any answers, or indeed anything new to add...
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Tea and cake with a vicar - or death. Not much of a choice, is it? I mean, given the choice, who wouldn't pick death? (Sorry - of course I mean 'Who wouldn't pick tea and cake with a Church of England vicar?') One of the really fab things...
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Just a short post today... If you want to know what's in store for you in the future, look no further than your horoscope (the same website also offers personal prophetic words). (That's LarkNews.com . Think twice about what you read!) And if...
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Some stuff you just couldn't make up. If you haven't already heard this one, Penthouse (yes, that one) Media Group Inc owns BigChurch.com, a Christian (yes, really) website which offers dating services, Bible search and commentary in four different...
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Well, over the last couple of weeks we've looked at rapture predictions and pranks, homilies and houses. So a few final words... which are to say that something's gonna happen, but we can't know what, and we can't know when. For example...
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Recent events in China and Burma may have been cataclysmic, but does that make them apocalyptic? Do they signal the imminent end of the world and the return of Jesus Christ? Well, the Bible certainly suggests that earthquakes and stuff will be a sign...
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According to a recent Sunday Telegraph survey of 100 schools, "only one in five is opting to stage the traditional Christmas story. One in three will stage a religion-free Christmas play, or have no event at all." Well, I can see that not everyone...
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AFP reports that a court in Timisoara, western Romania, dismissed a case brought by a man who had tried to sue God for 'fraud', 'betrayal of trust', 'corruption' and 'influence-peddling' - for failing to answer his prayers...
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Writing a blog is no excuse for having a rant... but who cares! This morning I rang an independent cinema because I want to go and see the award-winning documentary movie Visit Palestine there on Sunday. It's only on at one time, on one day, in one...
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The pastor of the Times Square Church in Manhattan, New York, was horrified to discover that an advertisement hoarding attached to the side of his church would be used to carry ads for Washlet, 'a bidet toilet that cleans a person’s rear-end via water...
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Isn't it extraordinary? The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is subject to the - wait for it - Port of Seattle's Holiday Decorations Advisory Committee. Don't people in Seattle have enough to think about? Well, apparently the various religious...
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According to the Christian Post , Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Bakker), famed US TV evangelist of the 1980s, died on Friday 20 July of bowel cancer - just a day after giving a live interview on Larry King's show. "Messner has had a life full...
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