Religious Potent Potables
This religious tradition has varied views on alcohol but the “fruit of the vine” still plays a pivotal in its central sacramental practice.
What is Christianity?
This actor played a Martin de Porres-inspired saint's weeping icon in the video for Madonna's 1989 hit "Like a Prayer."
Who is Leon Robinson?
This city is the unofficial capital of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
What is Salt Lake City?
People often say this to comfort those in hard times.
What is "It's God's will"?
What is Pontifex?
This religious group tends to avoid alcohol consumption because doing so violates the 5th of the Five Precepts and can impede one’s progress in the Noble Eightfold Path.
Who are Buddhists?
This is the title of George Michael's 1987 breakthrough album and first hit single therein.
What is "Faith"?
Muslims are expected to make a pilgrimage to this city at least once in their lifetimes.
What is Mecca?
This phrase is often invoked by people who cannot explain their bad behavior.
What is "The Devil made me do it?"
This person was unmasked last year as the voice behind @lasquirrellians on Twitter.
Who is Katie Milideo?
Wine is documented in the ancient healing system of this tradition, known as Ayurveda, but is not recommended for everyone.
What is Hinduism?
Jon Bon Jovi was living on this in 1986.
What is "a prayer"?
The Nation of Islam got its start in this midwest city.
What is Detroit?
Catholic mothers and grandmothers often say this when exasperated by bad behavior or poor choices.
What is "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph"?
This recently graduated Religion and Theology minor introduced First Lady Michelle Obama during a campaign rally on campus in 2016.
This fungus grows on bread and can lead to hallucinations that early Christian settler-colonists in New England blamed on witchcraft.
What is ergot?
The name of this Billboard-topping instrumental song shared a title with the film on whose soundtrack it appeared in May 1982, inspired by 2 Kings Chapter 6.
What is "Chariots of Fire"?
Buddha achieved Enlightenment sitting under a bodhi tree in this city.
What is Bodh Gaya?
People sometimes offer this as a way of inspiring hope in hopeless situations.
What is "Whenever God closes a door, he opens a window?"
This Canadian pop star recently broke with his celebrity pastor and Instagram bud over a disagreement regarding his engagement to Hailey Baldwin?
Who is Justin Bieber?
Indigenous Amazonians were known to brew this plant to make a psychedelic tea used in healing ceremonies.
What is Ayahuasca?
Huey Lewis & the News' 1987 chart-topper "Jacob's Ladder" drew its title from this book of the Bible.
What is Genesis?
This city is the most sacred in American civil religion.
What is Philadelphia?
To avoid taking Jesus Christ's name in vein, people can say this instead.
This Presiding Episcopalian Bishop and Primate from the US broke with many traditions at the Royal Wedding back in May by among other things reading his homily from an IPad.