Selling God
By Jodi A. Shaw
There’s a knock at the door. You answer it and find a stranger standing on your doorstep. You say hello. They ask you if you think world peace is a good thing. Of course, you reply. From there, it’s a smooth transition to “Your belief system is [...]
Until change do us part
Gabriele Pauli, Bavaria’s Conservative Christian Socialist, has a marriage proposal for you. No grand gestures, no diamonds, no romantic music; instead, Pauli has suggested that, after seven years, a couple should be able to choose to renew their marriage or allow it to dissolve. Yes, a seven-year expiry date on marriage.
Ideally, the cycle [...]
Does Christopher Hitchens exist?
By Zeff Davies (with files from Nathaniel Moher)
Now that Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything has been out for a few weeks, I thought it might be fun to find out exactly what kind of rabble it’s roused. That is, how are the true believers taking it? Badly, to be sure, [...]
Memo to Jesus: you need a better ad agency
Maybe you’ve seen the above ad. Maybe you haven’t. It’s part of a new controversial and irreverent campaign put together by the United Church of Canada. The church needs to renew its steadily aging congregation and they’re targeting a younger, more liberal audience that already sees itself as Christian but doesn’t necessarily attend church, and [...]
