Postcards from Palookaville

.... preachers as stand-up comics, cool video link-ups, and those omnipresent beautiful people? They are simply not entertaining enough. End of story.

.... preachers as stand-up comics, cool video link-ups, and those omnipresent beautiful people? They are simply not entertaining enough. End of story.

The recent comments by kidnap/rape victim Elizabeth Smart on how her religious upbringing in an 'abstinence only' environment made her ordeal that much worse and also factored in to her inability to break free are worthy of pause for thought. A number of things come to mind. First, whatever one's...

The recent comments by kidnap/rape victim Elizabeth Smart on how her religious upbringing in an 'abstinence only' environment made her ordeal that much worse and also factored in to her inability to break free are worthy of pause for thought. A number of things come to mind. First, whatever one's...

I see the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch is in a spot of trouble. Seems he has been taking a bit too much advice from cutting-edge church planters and conference organisers .

I see the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch is in a spot of trouble. Seems he has been taking a bit too much advice from cutting-edge church planters and conference organisers .

An early draft of my recent review of Thomas Albert Howard's brilliant monograph on European perceptions of American religion contained a paragraph which I simply could not fold in to the whole in an elegant manner. As a result, I removed it; but, as it speaks to the status of a philosopher who...

An early draft of my recent review of Thomas Albert Howard's brilliant monograph on European perceptions of American religion contained a paragraph which I simply could not fold in to the whole in an elegant manner. As a result, I removed it; but, as it speaks to the status of a philosopher who...

Sadly, at my church we cannot offer the kind of culturally transforming ministry that is available elsewhere (as an aside, it is not the ink of the gentleman on the right which worries me; it is his earlobes. What on earth has happened to them? Did it, like some of the later music of The Clash ,...

Sadly, at my church we cannot offer the kind of culturally transforming ministry that is available elsewhere (as an aside, it is not the ink of the gentleman on the right which worries me; it is his earlobes. What on earth has happened to them? Did it, like some of the later music of The Clash ,...