Americans love Faith served on a cafeteria tray, served up by magazine interviewers who scoop celebrity conversions into appetizing sound bites for the public to feed on. This week has given them plenty of new dishes.

This month in Rolling Stone magazine, pop-star Katy Perry (who is melting Popsicles from coast to coast this summer) declares that she still believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.  As many know, Perry had a brief stint in Christian music before becoming America’s bubblegum sex princess. But her comments are so tongue-in-cheek that it’s hard to imagine she is taking anything seriously, including the divinity of Christ. In the same interview she belittles her parents’ Pentecostal beliefs (“My dad speaks in tongues and my mother interprets”) and includes extraterrestrials among her beliefs. I say her sarcasm is a very good thing, for if Perry and I share the same faith, then I seriously misinterpreted fidelity to Jesus Christ.