John on July 30, 2010
The article says she’s still a “believer” but never says what it is she’s still a believer in…Apparently she’s renouncing her Catholic faith and apparently all organized religion, but is still a Bible reader and believer in Jesus: In a telephone interview Thursday, Rice said she had been having doubts for the past two to three years. She was troubled by the child abuse scandals in the church, and the [...]
John on January 5, 2010
Brit Hume said something scandalous the other day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_dCB-XUwoc What Hume has done here is appear in public without his secular burka. Bloggers on the right and left had a problem with this: Instapundit – “CALL ME CRAZY, but I don’t think religion is Tiger Woods’ problem.” This guy – [W]hy didn’t Brit Hume just say, “Hey Darky, your stupid religion ain’t good enough; you need to get with the [...]
John on December 31, 2009
I love this story: Ram Prasad Mainali, the 37-year-old chief of the Nepal Defense Army (NDA), was arrested on Sept. 5 for exploding a bomb in the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, in the Lalitpur area of Kathmandu on May 23. The explosion killed a teenager and a newly-married woman from India’s Bihar state and injured more than a dozen others. In Kathmandu’s jail in the Nakkhu area, [...]
John on April 11, 2009
Not long after I became a Christian, my mother presented me with a copy of A.N. Wilson’s biography of C.S. Lewis. I don’t think she had read more than a smattering of Lewis herself. She was a once-a-year Catholic whose actual view of religion had more in common with the secular humanist society than the Pope. To be fair, I don’t even know if she’d read the book before giving [...]
John on January 3, 2009
The son of one of Hamas’ top leaders left Islam and became a Christian: Yousef, son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the most influential leaders of the militant group, said the organization betrays the Palestinian cause and tortures its own members… Yousef said he was indoctrinated at an early age to use violence to challenge Israeli control in the region. As a teenager he moved up within the organization [...]
John on August 26, 2008
This one is a bit of a shock. Joe Eszterhas is the screenwriter best known for his sleazy, violent films like Basic Instinct, Sliver and Showgirls. In fact, the main character in Showgirls was named after his second wife. But now, unbelievably, Eszterhas has changed his tune: He and his second wife, Naomi, had just moved from Malibu to a suburb of Cleveland – where he had grown up; she [...]
John on December 6, 2007
Remember this? That was Paris Hilton carrying a Bible, just before a court date. Today’s Daily Mail has this picture of Britney Spears: That’s right. It’s a big picture of Jesus on that book. So what is it? Any guesses? The newly Christianized party girls are setting a great example already.
John on November 20, 2007
Mick Jagger has gone kabbalah, claims the Daily Mail. They have proof in the form of a picture of Mick wearing a kabbalah bracelet. But it sounds like maybe Mick is only lukewarm for it. He’s really more of a syncretist: Sir Mick, 64, seems to have shown more interest in the spiritual side of life after getting together with L’Wren Scott. Last month, the couple stayed at the 347-room [...]
John on November 17, 2007
The Sydney Morning Herald has an article noting the following: [F]or the past five years Elle Macpherson has been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. But contrary to recent chatter, her closest friends say The Body has not found the Bible. “She’s always been a very spiritual person but she has no affiliation with any particular religion,”… Nicole Kidman, a devout Catholic who has made no secret of her nervous anxieties, attended [...]
John on November 5, 2007
That’s the word from ABC: Britney Spears is set to shock the world with saucy new promotional shots picturing her seducing a handsome Catholic priest. Usually this sort of gratuitous crap bothers me, but in this case I just feel sorry for her. I’ve honestly made no effort to know anything about her life, but it’s truly inescapable. So here’s what I know…Britney Spears is a 25 year old junkie. She [...]
John on October 12, 2007
Reader Eric sent me a link to this one: Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, claims he converted from Islam to Christianity… Robert Hood, its warden from 2002 to 2005, says Yousef was a special case. He never left his cell because he did not want to face the indignity of a strip search required for recreation…Told that Yousef has begun leaving [...]
John on August 27, 2007
Well, Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick has pleaded guilty to dog fighting and animal cruelty. He threw himself on the mercy of the court and came out and made a public apology which you can view here. During his apology Vick stated that he had “found Jesus” and turned his life over to God. As always, I don’t want to make light of someone’s heartfelt conversion experience. Michael Vick is [...]
John on July 19, 2007
Scott at Magic Statistics has some big news on the Celebrity Conversion front, though in this case it isn’t to Christianity. Michael Richards, aka Kramer from Seinfeld, is traveling Cambodia seeking enlightenment. He has become a devout follower of a 29 year old Hindu mystic: After Richards’ outburst he started attending meetings with the sect which follows the teachings of 29-year-old Hindu monk Nithyananda, an avowed “enlightened Master and modern [...]
John on July 17, 2007
If you’d been able to get odds in Vegas three years ago on a member of the band Korn proclaiming faith in God and then writing a book about his spiritual conversion which ended up on the NY Times bestseller list, what would those odds have been? Truth really is stranger than fiction. Here’s a link to the book on Amazon.
John on May 22, 2007
I need a Drudge style police spinner for this one. Paris Hilton was photographed carrying a big gold Bible yesterday. Given that she’s about to go to jail, this might be a time for Paris to look into a mirror, as it were, and really think about life beyond shopping and being a celebrity party girl. Has Paris spent even five minutes of her life thinking about someone else? Does [...]
John on January 14, 2007
If you’ve passed a tabloid in the last decade, this story might come as a surprise. Sylvester Stallone is turning his life around: “I was raised in a Catholic home, a Christian home, and I went to Catholic schools and I was taught the faith and went as far as I could with it,” he said. “Until one day, you know, I got out in the so-called real world and [...]
John on January 3, 2007
Christianity Today has published an excerpt from a new book titled The Gospel According to the Beatles. The excerpt deals with the short-lived conversion of John Lennon in the late ’70s and details the beliefs he held at the end of his life. Here’s a snippet, but the whole thing is worth reading: A television addict for many years (it was his way of looking at the world since he [...]
John on August 1, 2006
Alice Cooper, who appeared in Wayne’s World and occasioned the famous movie line “We’re not worthy” is a believer. Sixteen years ago, he quit drinking and said to God, “I’m not worthy.” This week he made a bit of a splash in Arizona where his Solid Rock Foundation is helping to build a Christian teen center. It’s designed to keep kids off the streets and give them a chance to [...]
John on January 23, 2006
Is it just me or does it seem as if there’s a pattern here? First it was Jane Fonda, then Anne Rice, now feminist author Naomi Wolf is talking about her experience of Jesus. Reading the article, it’s clear that this is a very unique Damascus road type experience. I doubt Wolf could pass a theology exam at this point, nor does she sound the least bit interested in taking [...]
John on October 29, 2005
Author of horror novels Anne Rice has become a Christian and is planning to write a series of Christian novels. Read the whole story here.
