August (Web-only) 2000

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Faced with possible bankruptcy due to of major court costs and settlements with former students of the church's residential schools, the Anglican Church of Canada is starting to cut costs. It's starting by laying off a dozen of its 125 employees in the national office. Meanwhile, newly hired priests are being told not to count on a salary after next year.

The show ran for only two seasons, and hasn't had a new episode for half a decade, but 100 fans still showed up in Townsend, Tennessee, for a three-day Christy Fest. Meanwhile, PAX is making a two-hour Christy movie for Thanksgiving and a miniseries for February. Original producer Ken Wales isn't involved, but he showed up at Christy Fest to ask for prayer. "Pray that the spirit of Christy can live forever, whatever form that is," he said.

While ChristianityToday.com Weblog was in Amsterdam, Christianity.com launched. Mainly headed up by Pat Robertson and CBN, other "network partners" include creationist organization Answers in Genesis, Culture of Life, youth ministry association Challenge 2000, aid organization Feed the Children, Jews for Jesus, Charles Colson's Prison Fellowship, and T.D. Jakes Ministries. Broad group? The site is even broader, divided into "Catholic Christianity," "Messianic Christianity," "Orthodox Christianity," and "Protestant Christianity." Which makes it kind of a mini- Beliefnet. Only the site is apparently also trying to become the next Gospelcom, wooing ministries to put their sites under the Christianity.com URL (See Christianity.com's pitch at the National Religious Broadcasters convention here.). Former Pepperdine University president David Davenport is ...