Our Sexual Ethics Interactive has been re-dubbed The Moral Compass. I’m out in the field with my trusty fellow News21 camerapersons asking all the tough Sex Eth questions for our online video supplements; for example, how does YOUR religion feel about masturbation, divorce, premarital sex and dancin’ in the streets? Ok, I left off the dancin’ in the streets part. So far it’s been a wonderful education. I’ve learned about “Virtue Ethics” based on [see entire entry...]

Clayton and I started our day in a tuxedo shop in Benton, a small, sleepy town outside Little Rock, where the couple we’ve been profiling for the story on covenant marriages was shopping for their wedding.
This was no ordinary tux shop – a Bible lay open on a pedestal near the door, and the owner took off his heavy ring and held it toward us. [see entire entry...]

The Church at Rock Creek is a twelve million dollar facility that sits on top of a hill 15 minutes West of Little Rock. We’re told it’s among the 100 fastest growing churches in the country. It’s a one-stop shop for families of faith: Starbucks coffee, a bookstore, baby gifts and charity options all line the tremendous corridor. A dozen security personnel roam the lobby, and the head of security told us [see entire entry...]

Sunday marked my first trip to the San Francisco’s gay pride parade, where the themes of God, sex and family were on rainbow display, marching down Market Street. Joelle and I were there to follow the march of an Episcopalian parish from the area, St. John’s of the Mission, whose priest is a gay man. The Episcopalians were in good company – in the stretch where we congregated, the people of faith were lining up [see entire entry...]

In search of late-night food in downtown Little Rock, Singeli and I ran into a guitarist named James and his friend Alvin, an artist and local historian of sorts who drew our portraits. James, a self-avowed Christafarian, sang songs about Haile Selassie I, while his companion told us of Arkansas’ forgotten Norse roots. Both talked about the corrupting influence of money when it comes [see entire entry...]

Here’s a spoof of SL in RL, I think you’ll get it soon enough.
There’s also the Wired story from last week and this is definitely my favorite site to just check out what’s hot around religion in SL. As for making money in SL, how about giving it away? I’ll keep posting these up because my Google alerts is inundating me with them, but these are definitely my picks so far.

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In case folks missed it yesterday there was a good article on a Catholic priest in Alameda who is leaving his church two years after coming out as gay. The church was not rocked by the revelation, but I imagine it’s a rare experience outside the Bay Area? After attending the Episcopal mass today in the Mission, SF I am starting to really understand how churches, even within their own denominations, are divided along [see entire entry...]

There were many firsts for me, a city slicker, visiting Lincoln, NE. I came to profile a same-sex couple about their life. Gwen and Amy took me to a Heartland Gay Rodeo fund-raising event (in the style of “Cowboy 101″) just outside of town. We spent the day learning how to rope a metal calf, ride like madwomen on a John Deere Gator and put underwear on a goat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTl4_i-NZA0

I also saw my [see entire entry...]

Second Life has not yet reached the fate of the Roman Empire as so many SL veterans had predicted it months ago. I think it’s because early adopters of Second Life were just that, early adopters, just as we had the first wave of MySpacers who were then quickly jaded by its appeal to the masses. Now everyone, including my [see entire entry...]

Pick a tent, any tent at the WeFaith Conferece. Step right up to the most amazing collection of true-life stories in which Christians, pagans, Mormons, Muslims and more tell all about God, Sex and Family. Pick a tent — a revival meeting tent or one in our three-ring circus. Find out everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about that timeless dance [see entire entry...]