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I remember once reading a book in which a small child expressed astonishment by exclaiming, 'Christ on a bike!' I was torn - whether to laugh hysterically at the picture this conjured up, or to throw down this blasphemy in disgust. In the end I only snorted tea up one nostril and frowned heavily...

Hot on the heels of my last post (the face of the Virgin Mary on your breakfast toast) comes news of the face of a hanged man on the cover of a book he wrote, purportedly bound in his own skin. The book's up for auction in Doncaster (!) on 2 Dec, should you wish to bid for it yourself. Jesuit priest...

Ordinary people have made fortunes selling photos to the tabloids (and not just of Charlotte Church falling out of her dress or Amy Winehouse falling out of her mind, either). Mother Theresa's face in a chapati. David Beckham's face in a Jaffa Cake. The pope's face on a communion wafer. Gordon...

AFP reports that a court in Timisoara, western Romania, dismissed a case brought by a man who had tried to sue God for 'fraud', 'betrayal of trust', 'corruption' and 'influence-peddling' - for failing to answer his prayers. Mircea Pavel (40), serving 20 years in prison...

"Hey Bobby! I've got two Ahimelechs - swap you for an Eleazar?" We've looked at some odd gifts before, but allow me to introduce the Redemption Priests Trading Cards which, one assumes, are all the rage in playgrounds from Arkansas to Ohio. And there are booster packs with additional...

Many churches give themselves some kind of tagline, but St Leonard's in Hythe, England, has one which is particularly appealing: 'The church with the bones'. Apparently, at some point between the 13th and 15th centuries, they started filling the crypt with bits of dead people - the bones...

Thought you knew Christian music? Bit of John Wesley with his stout hymns, bit of Graham Kendrick with his rainbow strap, bit of Delirious with their... well, their thing. (To describe is sometimes to destroy, and since I really like them, I'm not going to go there.) Anyway - think again. As I wandered...

Can this really be true? Here's a big project I stumbled across on the interweb: The Nazareth Cross. 'They' (The Nazareth Cross Foundation) want to build the world’s largest cross, 60m high, containing a 'magnificent church' in its center - 15 stories high, with over 4,500 square...

Click to watch video Elwood is the world's ugliest dog, 2007. He even has a $1,000 prize to prove it. It used to be Archie , who has his own website and everything, but Archie sadly died, and so couldn't enter the competition this year (although, frankly...). Before that it was Sam , also now...