Weird

“Astronomers are photographing black holes. Researchers are finding new ways to improve our mental health. And now, a team at Johns Hopkins University has found a way to keep your burrito from falling apart while you eat it.” - Relevant

“It seems a little strange, but (pet ministry) is mission, it’s evangelism, it’s education, it’s hunger relief, it’s pastoral care. All those things are part of the church.” - RNS

“The ministry’s website includes testimonies from several people who said the oil from the bible healed them.” - WRBC

“As people put their faith in technology–to the point of hailing post-singularity Artificial Intelligence as a god–it is little wonder that the idea has arisen of robot priests and robot pastors.” - Cranach

I was expecting Him on a white horse

Enjoy! What’s the strangest thing your church has ever spent money on?

An Alabama reverend has cut up a Nike headband and wristband before his congregation to protest the company partnering with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Al.com reports the Rev. Mack Morris also told his Mobile congregation Sunday that he had bought his last pair of Nikes.

The Lord was showing us that HE can be Very Entertaining, and in the process Burn up our Fleshly Pride, AND give us an OUTSTANDING Blessing All at the Same time!!I felt like i was in a ‘Tube’ of the Holy Spirit and the More I pressed down, the More Holy Spirit was released into me - it was AWESOME

South Carolina [is] one of the few states with virtually no restrictions on the sale of venomous serpents. South Carolina has, through the years, provided snakes that serpent-handling preachers use at Sunday services because the Palmetto State, unlike many jurisdictions, doesn’t limit the sale of venomous snakes, state officials in South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky say.

A crocodile has killed a Protestant pastor who was baptising followers near a lake in southern Ethiopia. Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on Sunday morning at Lake Abaya in Arba Minch town’s Merkeb Tabya district. Residents and police told BBC Amharic a crocodile leapt from the water during the baptism and attacked him.