Indian portal Rediff.com has picked the 50 most influential Indian-Americans, a list that highlights several deep thinkers and spiritual leaders.
Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, who wrote Belief and Meaning and Self-Knowledge and Resentment. Bilgrami once told India Abroad:
 “People like (Oxford scientist) Richard Dawkins are missing something deep about what religion is [...]

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Multimillionaire NFL quarterback Michael Vick goes on record for staging dog fights. If you listen to the first three minutes of that clip, it sounds like an apology. Then, Vick finds God: “In this situation I found Jesus and asked him for forgiveness, and just turned my life over to god. I think that’s the [...]

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A Manchester, Conn. couple have found Jesus—in their kitchen cabinet, according to an NBC report. Malynda and Eric Smith saw the face of Jesus and have decided to keep the cabinet. It’s not quite a chocolate Virgin or God in your eggplant, but a

kitchen cabinet is certainly close.
Then there’s the a slightly more artistic appearance [...]

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A former Buddhist monk is in training to be the U.S. Army’s first Buddhist chaplain, according to an NBC report. Lieutenant Somya Malasri hopes to minister to the estimated 3,300 Buddhists in the U.S. Army. He will not be schooling them in the Kung Fu ways of the Shaolin though… Dude’s a Thai Buddhist.

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We’ve written before about the cult of consumerism and Steve Jobs’ new Jesus phone, but a Palm Beach Baptist Minister took it to the next level by offering $15 iTunes gift cards to anybody who filled out a join-up (”connection card”) at the church, the Palm Beach Post reports.
Does it smack of a bribe? Nah, it’s [...]

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In a once-in-a-lifetime religious pilgrimmage, a Virginia couple walks the historic Camino de Santiago in Spain
It’s hard to imagine undertaking an activity that will require long distance walking every day for 30days or more. Before I began the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James), I used to think that walking 5 or 6 [...]

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I was in the grocery store when someone in the next aisle answered their cell. Harsh words followed. I tired to ignore the intrusive, one-sided conversation as I maneuvered through the onions and potatoes to the bananas. A stranger was inflicting me with their angst.
That brought me back to the Camino where I delighted in [...]

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More than 80 years after scientists harrassed orphans in an experiment to make them stutter, the great State of Iowa paid out $925,000 to each child who had been subjected to what is now known as, The Monster Study.
So much for the Hippocratic oath’s ethic of “do no harm.” The study was kept quiet for years after [...]

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You’d think the New Life Church in Cedar Grove, West Virginia, would have gotten the message when its building burnt to the ground. But no, the faithful moved the church into a former furniture store and kept on with their worship (while the police continue to investigate the case as arson).
So Satan decided to take [...]

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We’ve written about the psychological and spiritual benefits of nudity before, but this time Spencer Tunick has taken it, as they say, to a totally new level. The photographer staged 600 volunteers on a glacier in Switzerland in 50-degree weather to draw attention to global warming.
The cheeky Reuters reporter covering the event contributes this: “Alpine [...]

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When a Bodega chocolate worker stopped believing in God, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared to her. But the appearance didn’t come down out of the sky, as it did to Juan Diego 500 years ago. The Virgin appeared on the floor of a factory, created from the drippings of a chocolate making machine, according to [...]

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There’s something inside the psyches of computer programmers that draws them to the intractabality of Zen koans. Combine that with a passion for sci-fi and faux mysticism and it bestows upon all mankind a prolific online library of teacher-student koan dialogues. 
Here’s a sample from The Tao of Programming:
A programmer from a very large computer company went to a software conference and [...]

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The moral of this story: don’t go wild when you’re burning rubber mats in your back yard and performing Wiccan religious ceremonies, especially when the cops show up. Brenna Raven Moonfire was says she was performing Wiccan ceremonies in her back yard. Cops say she was drunk, disorderly and negligently handling inflammable materials — something, it seems, [...]

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Sometimes God’s work gets in the way of a person’s relation with God. In no profession is that more true than being a pastor, a new study shows. Six out of every 10 Christians feel their hectic schedules keep them from spending time with God, it reports. Two thirds of pastors surveyed said their overloaded [...]

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23-year-old Thomas Kyle Nursey parked his Ford F-150 pickup truck inside a Catholic church Tuesday morning, according to news reports. The Floridian decided he wanted to go to church at 3 A.M. and drove his truck up through the front doors to display his anger at God. Police booked him.

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Abusive partners are turning to technology for new ways to torture and torment the other people in their relationships, reports MSNBC. Spyware, keystroke loggers and GPS tracking devices have become part of the abusers arsenal.
It’s a lucrative market fueled by the pain body, to borrow Eckhart Tolle’s poignant phrase for the basement of our psyches, [...]

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The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has opened up a new course of study in homemaking for female seminar students, raising ire from various camps, according to AP reports.
“We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for the home and the family,” Seminary President Paige [...]

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A camouflaged bible may be hard for deer to see, but this product’s path to profitability certainly isn’t. The $50 publication is sold by Christian Outdoorsman, a site that caters to Bible-thumping hunters.
A big market, apparently. A survey of licensed hunters and anglers last year commissioned by the U.S. National Wildlife Federation found half of those polled identified [...]

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Felicia Teske, a resident of Delaware, was eating dinner when she noticed that the slice of eggplant she was about to eat spelled out the name of the Creator. She set it aside and did what any reasonable person would do: Called Action News to get her story on air – before launching an eBay [...]

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A leading Norweigen newspaper, echoing sentiments across the country, is calling for Princess Martha Louise to renounce her royal title, according to an AP report. The princess claims that she can talk to angels and horses, leading some to suggest that she is suffering from a mental disability.
St. Teresa of Avila, the 16th-century Spanish mystic, [...]

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