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Constitutional amendment on marriage definition to be on ballot.

And so the world still turns. No rapture, no living hell, no Armageddon. We are where we were before the weekend with no signs of Christ’s return, facing the same ol’ same ol’: Arnold’s love child, Newt’s flame-out, life without Oprah. Perhaps this might be a nice teachable moment to reflect on all this—not nonsense at all, but rather an illuminating cultural moment that reveals an awful lot about the role of religion in our crazy world. What are the key takeaways from the “mediapocalypse”? Here are five for your consideration:

Texas Restoration Project founder mulls a Draft Perry movement.

Jacksonville’s recent mayoral election provides a perfect opportunity to explore the coded racism in tea party rhetoric.

Many of these weather events actually are a kind of “punishment”—not in the conservative-theological sense of tit-for-tat justice meted out by an Abusive Father on High, but in the more progressive-theological sense of unforeseen consequences of reckless human actions. Climate scientists have said for years that global climate change will lead to increased severe weather events, and now they appear to be here; along with droughts and poor harvests caused by shifting climatic belts. On a planetary basis, we are reaping what we have sown for two hundred years.

A Republican primary 2012 update.

Is Jim Daly really giving up on fighting same-sex marriage?

Catholic Republicans tout letter after Catholic criticism of proposed budget cuts.

End Times radio station rakes in millions with false promises of Judgment Day.

Noah’s Ark expected to be big tourism draw.