My teenaged son want to dress up as Jesus. He has the hair, but he wants a robe like Jesus wore. However, he doesn't want a crappy polyester costume-shop robe. Also both of us refuse to sew anything. So -- what would be a good Jesus-robe (or just any plausible Jesuswear. This would be daywear, not Jesus eveningwear) that we could buy, in a nice natural fabric? and we're in New York City so if you have specific suggestions for stores that would be even better.
posted by DMelanogaster at 10:47 AM - 20 answers

If the three vows of the Franciscans and Dominicans are "chastity, poverty and obedience," what might be the vows that the artist takes? (I mean artist, of course, to cover writers and so on.) I ask this question because for people in a religious order, it is useful to remember what they are sacrificing; to keep it in mind as a given. [more inside]
posted by PersonAndSalt at 11:14 AM - 17 answers

Non-religious novels about early Christians that aren't about Jesus. [more inside]
posted by empath at 6:10 PM - 24 answers

I'd like to read a book about the Dreamtime of the Australians. I was kind of thinking about reading Chatwin, but these comments have made a little wary; I don't particularly want to read about another outsider's spiritual journey, and I don't want a New Agey attempt-at-universal-religion haphazardly mixed in with basic anthropological records. Can you recommend a solid book about Dreamtime?
posted by Greg Nog at 2:39 PM - 10 answers

Can you recommend a book about Catholicism? No, other than the Bible. [more inside]
posted by teragram at 5:45 PM - 31 answers

Trying to find a Catholic night time prayer, very similar to the Prayer For Daily Neglect, that was included in a small booklet of Catholic prayers recently distributed via pew pockets, July or August in the Lubbock dioceses. It was also a three-part prayer, and was also for neglects, but worded differently than the "official" prayer. Basically, it contained to the effect of a "provide the good I saw but did not do", a "complete the good that I did incompletely", and another part. Any clues? Google came up empty for me.
posted by CodeBaloo at 11:20 AM - 2 answers

Help me reconcile my liberal beliefs with a church family again... [more inside]
posted by anonymous at 9:26 AM - 38 answers

Where I can find resources inquiring into the ethics of horror films? [more inside]
posted by ageispolis at 5:40 PM - 8 answers

Does anyone know a vibrant Roman Catholic parish in the Greater Toronto Area? [more inside]
posted by feelinggood at 8:08 PM - 1 answers

Are the existence of logical paradoxes evidence that logic is not Universal truth, or simply symptoms of incomplete or inaccurate semantic systems? [more inside]
posted by idyllhands at 9:54 AM - 37 answers

How does one reconcile vegan principles with environmental concerns? [more inside]
posted by Tchad at 11:47 AM - 21 answers

Help me find a vibrant Protestant church in the Cleveland area. I'm between denominations. [more inside]
posted by debbie_ann at 3:54 PM - 12 answers

So I've just finished "The Lost Symbol," and would like to pick the brain of all of you Masonic MeFites. Spoilers aplenty within. [more inside]
posted by jbickers at 2:18 PM - 8 answers

Sometime around '93-95, when I was living in Plymouth, NC, my elementary school class took a field trip to a bird farm. I would love to track down the place where I went. [more inside]
posted by srrh at 12:59 AM - 2 answers

Asking for a friend: What questions should he ask Richard Dawkins during a radio interview? [more inside]
posted by JaiMahodara at 1:25 PM - 29 answers

Is there a fable or proverb that expresses the inverse of the blind men and the elephant? [more inside]
posted by alms at 6:47 PM - 10 answers

Did Mark Twain ever comment on the Seventh-Day Adventist Church? [more inside]
posted by Anephim at 8:03 PM - 5 answers

When and why in American history did reverence for the free market become caught up with christian fundamentalism? Was it a reaction to the coupling of atheism and communism or what?
posted by beerbajay at 1:52 PM - 24 answers

Help me recall a message illustration I believe from Dr. Howard (Howie) Hendricks - DTS - given probably between 1970-1978. The illustration was a humorous "Job Description for a Pastor" pointing out extremes in expectations for a pastor and family. [more inside]
posted by tronec at 1:04 PM - 3 answers

Looking for liberal Catholic parishes in Toronto. [more inside]
posted by pised at 10:03 AM - 5 answers