The wooden boat — or is it a house? — was found at about 12,000 feet elevation.

Evangelical explorers say it must be Noah’s Ark because it’s impossible to build a wooden house 12,000 feet up the side of a Turkish mountain.

Skeptics say it can’t be Noah’s Ark because it’s impossible to run a boat aground 12,000 feet up the side of a Turkish mountain.

For more on the story, click here.

The North Little Rock billboard is 14 feet tall and 48 feet wide and five letters long: J-E-S-U-S.

The sign, green and white and made of vinyl, towers over Interstate 30’s southbound travelers.

A central Arkansas businessman pays Lamar Outdoor Advertising a sizable sum to lift up and illuminate it in the name of Jesus.

Billboard rentals in this heavily traveled corridor run about $1,500 per month, Lamar sales manager David Fraiser said. “Quite a bit of traffic goes through there, yes sir,” Fraiser said. More than 80,000 vehicles per day, he added.
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I saw former president George W. Bush speak today at El Dorado High School in El Dorado, Arkansas.

He spoke of visiting AIDS/HIV orphans in Rwanda who had lost both parents to the disease. They had been taken in by a Christian charitable group and given renewed hope.

“God is good,” Bush says he told the orphans — and they shouted back — “All the time.”

If orphans in Africa can say “God is good — all the time”, how in the world can Americans say anything less, Bush told the crowd. By the end 43 was saying “God is good” and the El Dorado students were answering him: “All the time.”

Conservative Anglicans who have waited seven years for the Archbishop of Canterbury to take action against the Episcopal Church better not hold their breath.

Archbishop Rowan Williams, in a message to traditionalists, says there will be “no quick solutions” to divisions exacerbated by the Episcopal Church’s election of an openly-gay bishop in 2003 and an openly-lesbian bishop in 2010.

To see the complete speech, click here.

There’s a greatstory in The Economist about religious affiliations in sub-Saharan Africa.

It is based on a new study funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Templeton Foundation.

You can look at reams of pages of data in the report — or simply take a look at the graphic at the top of the Economist. It tells the story.

In 1900, most Africans followed tribal religions. Islam was the second largest religion. Christianity was barely a blip on the map. 110 years later, Christianity is the dominant religion. It’s one of the great Christian missionary success stories in the history of Christendom.

Church pipes stolen before men’s breakfast
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Tacoma police said thieves stole copper pipes from a church. KIRO-TV reported that members of Grace Missionary Baptist Church were preparing for a mens’ breakfast Friday night when they noticed the toilets weren’t flushing. There was also no water from the faucets.
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There’s a new woman of the cloth in Malibu and her name is Barbie. Looking fabulous in her clerical garb, Rev. Barbie is

1.) Unitarian
2.) Methodist
3.) New Age
4.) Episcopalian
5.) Scientologist
6.) Non-denominational
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Obama seeks new tone in outreach to Muslim world

By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Less talk about “Islamic radicalism” and a lot more about doing business. In the year since President Barack Obama pledged a new beginning in the relationship with the Muslim world, the White House has begun to change the U.S. focus.
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Complete with a buffet. Among the guests: Joel Osteen. For the pool report, released by the White House this morning, read below. (more…)

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his family marked the Easter holiday by attending a music-filled service at a historically black church in southeast Washington.
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