Religion
Are priests with it?
The recurring theme of Catholic orders doing youth outreach by insisting that, despite all appearances being to the contrary, they're really "hip" and "with it." See also: Jesus, the Original Hipster.
Catholic Digest - Dec 1965
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 08, 2016 -
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Category: Religion, 1960s
Inverted Preacher
September 1928: The novelty of preaching from a casket having worn off, Rev. H.W. Thomas announced he would henceforth deliver the gospel message while standing on his head.
Medford Mail Tribune - Sep 5, 1928
Update: Here's a picture of Rev. H.W. Thomas taken in 1928, when his stunt for that sermon was to unwrap the "swathings of iniquity" from a member of his congregation who posed as a live "Mummy."
Milwaukee Sentinel - May 8, 1928
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 07, 2016 -
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Category: Religion, 1920s
Follies of the Madmen #272
Please spend half a minute to contemplate the subtext of this imagery. A pagan housewife (prefiguring BEWITCHED?) performs black magic to seduce and beguile a priest, with hubby nowhere in sight. Happens in 1950s suburbia every Sunday.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 17, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Food, Mass Transit, Religion, 1950s
King Louis Narcisse
A type of extravagant preaching that seems less prevalent today.
His Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 16, 2016 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Ethnic Groupings, Religion, 1960s
The Battle of the Pulpits
Jan 1956: It was Reverend vs. Reverend. On the left, in the main pulpit, the Rev. Mr. Thomas ordered hymns and told the organist to start playing. On the right, in the raised altar, the Rev. Mr. Melish led prayers.Church leaders had been trying to remove Rev. Melish from his position as rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn, believing he was a communist sympathizer. Melish refused to go. This led to the situation where the church-appointed rector and Melish attempted to lead Sunday services simultaneously, battling to drown each other out.
Bishop James DeWolfe eventually brought an end to the feud by closing the church entirely, and it remained shuttered for 12 years.
You can read Melish's account of the feud here. And it's also described in his NY Times obit.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 11, 2016 -
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Category: Religion, 1950s
Kosher Cannabis
Vireo Health, a company in New York that supplies medical marijuana, is now having their product certified Kosher. Apparently this would not normally be necessary except that some of the cannabis will be used in baked goods. So, because some of it will be eaten it must be certified Kosher for those who keep Kosher. Pot, its becoming more mainstream everyday.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jan 06, 2016 -
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Category: Drugs, Food, Religion
Not The Rib
A Biblical scholar claims that due to a mistranslation the original scripture actually says that Eve was made from Adam's penis not his rib. The professor states that man is the only mammal without a penis bone. Guess that's where it went.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 29, 2015 -
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Category: Authorities and Experts, Religion, Can’t Possibly Be True
Heaveno!
Leonso Canales of Kingsville, Texas began his campaign to replace the greeting "Hello" with the less satanic "Heaveno" in 1988, but he got really serious about it in 1997 when he placed ads in the local paper showing the word "Hello" scratched out and replaced with "Heaveno." That same year, his campaign received official support when the commissioners of Kleberg County voted unanimously to designate "Heaveno" as the county's official greeting.Canales died in Sep 2014, and with his departure the wind seems to have been taken out of the sails of the Heaveno movement. The website heaveno.com has been abandoned (although the old site is preserved in the Wayback Machine).
The Encyclopedia of American Loons includes a brief entry about Canales, and his son posted a memorial to him on YouTube (embedded below).
Standard-Speaker (Hazleton, Pennsylvania) - Jan 17, 1997
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 07, 2015 -
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Category: Languages, Religion, 1990s
Marjoe Gortner, Child Preacher
Marjoe Gortner made headlines in the late 1940s when, at the age of 3½, he became an evangelist preacher. And in 1949, at the age of 4, he performed his first marriage ceremony, marrying Raymond Miller and Alma Brown.
Source: Google Cultural Institute
Daily Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon) - Jan 4, 1949
In the early 1970s, Gortner had a change of heart and collaborated with documentary filmmakers to expose the profit motive of the revivalist industry. The resulting film, Marjoe, won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Documentary Film.
Source: Wikipedia
Gortner then went on to become an actor, appearing mostly in B-movies, before finally transitioning into producing celebrity sporting events to raise money for charities.
Read more about Gortner at wikipedia and RogerEbert.com.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 05, 2015 -
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Category: Religion, 1940s
Amish Marathon Runner
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 23, 2015 -
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Category: Fashion, Religion, Sports
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