Deng Ziqi, whose Chinese name is G.E.M. 邓紫棋 is “China’s Taylor Swift.” She is one of China’s most popular and successful female singers. She is a Christian. Deng says that the inspiration for the new album Revelation came from a supernatural experience she encountered. Read more
A pastor has blasted his congregation as “poor, broke, busted and disgusted”, for not buying him a luxury watch. “Y’all know I asked for one last year. Here it is all the way in August and I still ain’t got it,” Read more
Online shops that sell rosaries have reported a boost in sales following a controversial article published in The Atlantic magazine that attempted to link the Rosary to right-wing extremism in the United States. Daniel Panneton claimed, “The rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or ‘rad-trad’) Catholics.” Read more
Britney Spears’ request to marry in a church in Santa Monica was denied because she was not a practising Catholic.”They said I had to be Catholic and go through a test!!! “Isn’t church supposed to be open to all?” A spokesperson for Santa Monica Church said their records indicate Spears never contacted the church about Read more
Hund the Hound, a 33-year-old Ohioan, is a ‘furry’. He is also a Christian. For Hund and many other Christian furries, those two identities peacefully coexist. Not everyone would agree. The furry movement grew up in the 1970s as part of the underground comic book world. Read more
A great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith Jr found the Mormon prophet’s photo tucked inside a locket passed down for generations. The great-great-grandson of Smith, Dan Larsen inherited the locket shortly before his mother’s death in 1992. Its finial was bent and he was not able to open it, so he put it away for safekeeping. Read Read more
For days ahead of the official holiday in Ireland on August 1, many modern pagans have already been celebrating Lúnasa, the first of three harvest holidays on the modern pagan calendar called The Wheel of the Year. But Lúnasa is a loose combination of Irish harvest customs so it is celebrated when the harvest begins Read more
A preacher was giving a sermon about keeping faith in the face of grave adversity when three robbers walked in. They showed guns and demanded property from him and his wife. They took more than $US 1 million worth of jewellery. Read more
A lot of the time, watching Christianity as it is portrayed in Western media feels like attending a particularly sombre funeral. “God’s Favourite Idiot,” a new Netflix comedy, isn’t just a comedy, and it isn’t just religious. It’s a combination of the two. Read more
When Mary-Anne Paterson lost her mother, Anne, to breast cancer, she knew she wanted to make something in her memory. Now she is creating glass jewellery from her mother’s ashes. Read more