Religious Road Trip

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I just heard a interesting story of a professor who took his family on the road to see religious attractions in the American south. He chronicles it in a new book called Roadside Religion. Places like Golgotha Fun Park, the World's Largest Ten Commandments, Paradise Gardens, Ave Maria Grotto, Holy Land USA and, yes, Cross Garden.Now if only I can do an American version and an International version, anyone have any suggestions for a book on religious attractions of the world? To hear the interview on NPR, click here.

Ravi Z. and the Four Questions and Mahatma Gandhi

I read these and thought them to be quite profound. "There are four questions in life, origin, meaning, morality and destiny, when you look at the person of Christ these are all answered.

Even Mahatma Gandhi said this, “Of all the dispositions and teachings of thinkers and ethicists, the one doctrine that I have no sufficient counter for is Jesus on that Cross.