Lark News has an amusing little parody article about the outsourcing of prayer lines. Lark takes the frustration everyone has with outsourced call centers for tech support and applies it to prayer lines.

Sara and I spent a few minutes reading over this, attempting to figure out if it was serious. We debated back and forth about whether or not people could really be this strange.

This either shows how gullible we are or how strange the Christian right can be portrayed in the news. I think it was the ‘For Eunuchs’ audio button that gave it away in the end.

Last month, Lori Danes, 43, called the prayer line of a major television ministry and requested prayer for her mother’s persistent ulcers. But her prayer representative, who called himself “Darren,” prayed in a strong Indian accent that “all the gods would bless her mightily.”
“I was stunned,” Danes says. “It was like I’d called a demon prayer line.”

It’s short and funny, definitely worth a few minutes of your time. I poked around the site a bit more and found a number of Onion-esque articles that I thought were worth reading.

Since starting this project, I’ve been spending more time cruising religious blogs and other interesting faith-related sites. Not a lot of time, but any time is technically ‘more time’ than zero. I’m discovering that it’s hard to find quality content. Anyone care to share any recommendations that you read?

(Thanks, Jhayne)