In 1966, in an interview John Lennon said: “Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple. Today we are more famous than Jesus Christ.”
Mr. Lennon’s ‘we’ was a reference to The Beatles.
After being brutally murdered [...]

SUZANNE SATALINE, The Wall Street Journal
(March 9) A few weeks ago, Hemant Mehta posted an unusual item for sale on eBay: a chance to save his soul.

The following story is the reason I ask the million $ question everywhere, which is: “If you were to die today, would you go to heaven or hell?”
Mammoth Lakes—The ski patrol had been at work since first light, inspecting Mammoth Mountain’s reopened runs after a week of heavy snow and blustery winds.
By midmorning Thursday, seven [...]

His last words were:
“That guy’s got to stop. . . . He’ll see us.”
When James Dean died, only one of his movies, East of Eden, had been released. The other two, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant, had not. In fact Dean had just finished filming on Giant when he [...]

(I don’t know if this story is true or not, but it’s funny)
As a young minister, I was asked by a funeral director to hold a graveside service for a derelict man who had died while traveling through our area. The funeral was held well out into the countryside.
This man would be the first to [...]

From the Texas House Corrections Committee hearing (on 3-23-06):
“What’s our prison population?” asked Chairman Madden.
“Full,” replied LBB’s Michelle Connolly. Right now it’s at 151,585, she said.
“But there’s an execution today,” deadpanned Rep. Jim McReynolds, “so that’s 151,584.”
-From Grits for Breakfast

Voltaire’s last words were:
“This is no time to make new enemies.”
(He was asked on his deathbed to renounce Satan)

Shoppers in Chicago were asked what would happen if an atomic bomb were to land on the city. Only 2% thought they would be among the dead.
-L.A. Times Magazine, Dec. 2005

“Your pretty face is going to hell.”
Johnny Knoxville on what his tombstone should say.
(People magazine, 11-07-05)

There she was: a rather well dressed black woman thumbing through a Wicca book at Barnes and Noble. I thought it might be too dangerous to interrupt this lady from her satanic curiosity and engage her with the gospel at this time. Still, I chose to throw all caution to the wind…
“Excuse me,” I said [...]