Top 3 Weekly Weird Religious News Items

In a media context, summer is the UK is often referred to as the silly season, a time when frivolous news stories emerge. Other terms include “slow news season” or “dog days of summer”. Its understandable because people are on vacation and parliaments are in recess, hence the activities that generate a lot of media content … Read more

Top 3 Weekly Weird Religious News Items

After last weeks “Ark Special” posting, I’d be tempted to say something along the lines of this week being a week where these weekly weird religious news posting summaries are now back to normal. There is however one tiny flaw … there is nothing “normal” about much of this. You do of course have to … Read more

Top 3 Weekly Weird Religious News Items

It was of course tempting to include the insanity in the UK regarding “Cadburys Egg Hunt”, but since I already covered that a few days ago, it is not in this week’s list. So what have I got for you this week? Item 1 – Steven Bancarz: Your Knick-Knacks Can Give Demons the “Legal Right” To Do Demon Stuff … Read more

Top 3 Weekly Weird Religious News items

I appear to have a pattern here in which I pick three of the weirdest bits of religious news items from the previous seven days, for example last week here, and the week before here, and the week before that here. Basically the filter is that if it is specifically religious in nature and also … Read more

No more Climate Change Deniers … with a stroke of a pen they are all gone

So the news is in fact about the news itself, or to be more precise, is about a decision that has been taken by Associated Press, they have decided that they will no longer deploy the term “skeptic” or “denier” to describe those that reject the current scientific consensus regarding manmade climate change. Their blog explains … Read more