Christian Chat Rooms: LOVE STORY: ONLINE FRIENDSHIP LEADS TO NET GAINS
Rewriting the lyrics to a Broadway song, Melissa Quiring of Camas and Jason Lee of San Francisco met as enchanted strangers across a crowded chat room. The Net result: friendship, love and marriage.It began in the fall of 1998. Melissa, 28, had recently moved to Redding, Calif., where she was a church youth leader. Jason, 27, was finishing chiropractic school in the Bay area.Jason was a member of America Online and enjoyed spending time in AOL's Christian chat rooms....
Christian Chat Rooms: 'Saved!' stirring praise, protest
"I've been born again my whole life," says Mary, the heroine of the new satirical comedy movie "Saved!" Whether you take that statement as sincere or preposterous is one predictor of whether you'll enjoy or reject "Saved!"For that matter, audiences will disagree about whether Mary is even a heroine. A devout young woman who attends a Christian high school when the movie opens, she has sex with...
Christian Chat Rooms: A Ministry Via Modem
New Cyberchurch Boasts 40,000 Congregants
A Dallas Internet entrepreneur is giving new meaning to Jesus's words in the Gospel of Matthew: Whenever his disciples come together in his name, Jesus is there among them. Even if it's in cyberspace. On Friday, Bruce Thompson opened the "virtual doors" to his new church, where computers and modems have replaced pews and kneelers. Thompson believes his 777live.com could become the primary source of biblical teaching and fellowship...
Christian Chat Rooms: TEXAN'S CYBERCHURCH BOASTS 40,000 CONGREGANTS
A Dallas Internet entrepreneur is giving new meaning to Jesus' words in the Gospel of Matthew: Whenever his disciples come together in his name, Jesus is there among them.Even if it's in cyberspace. On Friday, Bruce Thompson opened the "virtual doors" to his new church, where computers and modems have replaced pews and kneelers. Thompson believes his 777live.com could become the primary source of biblical teaching and fellowship for tens of...