BLESSINGS, GUARANTEED More and more churches (“hundreds,” according to a June Christianity Today report) offer hesitant parishioners a “money-back guarantee” if they tithe 10 percent (or more) of their income for 90 days–but then feel that God blesses them insufficiently in return. The South Carolina megachurch NewSpring instituted such a program in the 1990s and claims that, … [Read more...] about NOTW: Guaranteed blessings, full-body transplants and BYU urine stunts
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NOTW: Brown fingerprints, handgun follies and a ‘tortured’ Playboy Playmate
JAIL IS ALL HELL The eye-catching Vietnamese model and Playboy (Venezuela edition) Playmate Angie Vu complained to the New York Daily News in April that her five-plus months in jail in Brooklyn have been “torture” and “cruel” because of her lack of access to beauty care. Vu is fighting extradition to France for taking her nine-year-old daughter in violation of the father’s … [Read more...] about NOTW: Brown fingerprints, handgun follies and a ‘tortured’ Playboy Playmate