NYT: "Suffering the Pornographers"

Craig Gross and Mike Foster, two young pastors from California, were looking for direction when one day in 2001, Mr. Foster said, God came to him in the shower and said one word: 'Pornography.' Mr. Foster, 33, said he did not often get such visits, and so he treated it as a divine calling. Since it came with no further instructions, the two reasoned that it was up to them to figure out what to do next.

And so it came to be that on a Sunday afternoon three years later, Mr. Gross, 28, and Mr. Foster were tooling around a mall parking lot here in a black Scion xB festooned with ads declaring, 'XXXChurch.com: The No. 1 Christian Porn Site.' An air freshener with an image of Jesus dangled above the dash.

'You can see people checking us out,' Mr. Gross said.

For Mr. Gross and Mr. Foster, who sometimes refer to themselves as 'the goofballs,' it was just another day of 21st century ministry, combining technology, self-promotion, sensationalism and humor to address what they see as an equally up-to-date scourge on modern society: Internet pornography. Their approach bears little resemblance to what most people think of as church.

I'm a subscriber at Craig and Mike's site, and have been impressed withe what they're trying to do. You ought to take a read the article and look.