SF News SF Teacher and Coach Survives Brutal Train Robbery in Italy in ‘Miraculous’ Recovery Nicholas Pellegrino, a 29-year-old San Francisco Catholic high school teacher and track coach, is recovering after his throat was slashed in a train robbery while traveling near Milan, Italy — a survival he and his surgeons call “miraculous.”
SF Politics Giant Christian Cross Removed From Albany Hill Park, Lawsuit Will Decide Whether It Returns A 52-year-old, 28-foot cross that was lit up for Easter and Christmas at Albany Hill Park has been removed by the City of Albany because it promotes one religion over others, and to boot, its electrical writing may pose a fire risk.
SF News Arizona Baptist Church Makes YouTube Doc About San Francisco Being A Filthy '#Sodom' The pastor of a Baptist church in Tempe, Arizona has created a Biblical word salad of a sermon, with accompanying YouTube "documentary," about how dirty and crime-ridden San Francisco is and how this represents some nationally important sin against God.
SF News St. John Coltrane Church Finds Temporary Home In the Western Addition When the specter of eviction began to loom over the 1971-founded St. John Coltrane Church this past February, Archbishop Franzo King told SFist that his congregation was concerned but far from defeated. "This
SF News Bay Area Muslims Are Getting Out The (Anti-Trump) Vote Last December, video showed a woman in Alameda County harassing a group of praying Muslims, screaming that they were "murderers." Rasheed Albeshari, who posted footage of the attack, wrote at the time, "I
Arts & Entertainment Pentecostal Megachurch To Finally Save San Francisco? We're streaming our service now! Join us for worship and a message from Ps @BrianCHouston at https://t.co/UD41BxjvCU pic.twitter.com/UcORbvSaUC— Hillsong Church (@hillsong) February 6, 2016 Now that the
SF News Techies Spending $4K A Pop On 'Rationality' Seminars That Sound Vaguely Culty It's time for a bunch of self-proclaimed "rationalists" — a group of mostly technologists in their 20s — to start acting like it and stop paying the Berkeley-based Center For Applied Rationality. I say this
SF News In Ongoing Battle With Catholic Hospital, ACLU Moves To Sue Over Refused Tubal Ligations Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California, which is part of the SF-based, mostly Catholic Dignity Health network, has come under fire from the ACLU of Northern California after refusing to perform tubal ligations
SF News Anonymous Craigslister Seeks Facebook Devotees For Zuckerberg-Based Religion Tech pundits don't exalt Mark Zuckerberg as the boy-god they once did, but one San Francisco follower of all things Zuckerbergian is looking for a few fellow disciples to help him create a
SF News San Francisco Is Only The Fourth Most Godless Place In The Country, Study Finds This week in studies: a new survey from the American Bible Society has found that San Francisco is not, in fact, the godless hellhole it is made out to be. Instead, the titles
Arts & Entertainment Video: Pastor Delivers 1-Minute Sermon In Order To Watch 49ers Playoffs Way, way over in Butte, Montana, Pastor/49er zealot Tim Christensen of Gold Hill Lutheran Church cut things short with God on Sunday in order to watch SF beat Carolina. "Would you all
SF News Harold Camping, Prophet Who Falsely Predicted 2011 Rapture, Has Died With a heavy heart we report to you that Harold Camping, failed Oakland-based doomsday soothsayer, has died. The Family Radio minister's prediction of a catastrophic May 21, 2011 rapture never happened — famously so,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: New 'Jesus Saves' Guy Have you seen the new Jesus Saves guy? Well, here he is. We like him. A lot. He's got a fresh take on Jesus signage too. Cool font. (Photo by Troy Holden.)
SF News Mormon-Run Marriott Sponsored This Year's Folsom Street Fair A funny little news item appeared over the weekend connecting the fact the San Francisco Marriott had signed on as a sponsor of this year's Folsom Street Fair, and the company is still
SF News Abercrombie Wrongly Fired Muslim For Hijab, Rules Judge Back in 2010, Hani Khan, an 18-year-old Muslim, claimed Abercrombie & Fitch fired her for wearing a head scarf at work. Well, today a judge agreed with her. U.S. District Judge Yvonne
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Every Young Man's Battle Pornography! It's the work of the Antichrist! Please enjoy these edits of some churchy teaching videos for teen boys about battling the temptation to watch porn by our friends at Deeper Understanding. "Put
SF News S.F. Gays Use Sharp Jewelry To Spread AIDS, Claims Pat Robertson Sick television evangelist Pat Robertson took to the air on Tuesday on the 700 Club to make wild, untrue claims about gay man in San Francisco and their use of jewelry. Specifically, he
SF News Planned Parenthood Buffer Zone Proposed to Keep Anti-Abortion Protesters At Bay Anti-abortion protesters will no longer be able to stand directly in front of San Francisco's Planned Parenthood clinic if Supervisor David Campos has his way. A new measure would impose a 25-food bubble
SF News 'Killing Jews Is Worship' Muni Ads Spark Controversy New ads adorning ten of the city's buses are causing a stir for their anti-Islamic rhetoric and sparking a hate speech vs. free speech debate that's got Muni parked in the crossfire. The
SF News S.F. Cardinal William Levada Speaks Out About Vatican Conclave Apparently, San Francisco Cardinal William Levada is one of the most influential people involved in the selection of the next pope, according to the Washington Post and others. Levada actually took over as
SF News Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence Respond To Pope Resignation In light of today's news that Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28, SFist asked the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a Catholic parody performance organization that uses drag and religious imagery to
Arts & Entertainment More Pleasant Pope Benedict XVI Can Be Found At S.F. Wax Museum Pope Benedict XVI, a man of the cloth who will be best remembered for his homophobic decrees and an anti-Islamic snafu, is the first pope to resign in over 600 years. Peace out.
SF News S.F. Archbishop Compares Gay Marriage To Male Breastfeeding Speaking of fools, San Francisco's favorite drunk driving man of God, archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, told an English Catholic newspaper that legalizing same-sex marriage is akin to male breastfeeding. In part of an interview
SF News Episcopal Bishop Barred From Archbishop Cordileone's Installation Marc Andrus, an Episcopal Bishop of California noteworthy for his public anti-Prop 8 stance, was not allowed to be seated at Thursday's installation of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, even though he was an invited
