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Colson likes Liddy's theory that Watergate burglars were looking for prostitution photos
Admitting he "never thought the received wisdom—that is, that people were breaking in for political intelligence—made any sense at all," Watergate figure and Christianity Today columnist Charles Colson said he finds fellow Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy's theory that the Watergate burglars were looking for photos of prostitutes "one of the most plausible explanations" he's heard. Colson's comments were part of a 1996 videotaped deposition played in court Thursday in a defamation lawsuit filed by former DNC secretary Ida "Maxie" Wells against Liddy. The former FBI agent who helped plan the Watergate break-in says former White House counsel John Dean ordered the break-in to get photos—kept in Wells's desk—linking Dean's fiancee to a call-girl ring. Wells (and Dean) deny such photos existed.

As National Association of Evangelicals moves to California, a new vision
"Our location sends a huge signal as to what we see NAE becoming," Kevin W. Mannoia, NAE president, tells The Sun newspaper in Baltimore. The newspaper continues: "What it is becoming, says Mannoia … is a group that actively engages a culture and society that is increasingly multiethnic, globalized and urbanized, not one that shuns them as sinful and secular."

Behold now behemoth
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer isn't the first media outlet to report on the strangely named "Church of God-Zillah." (See an Associated Press report from June, for example). But its reporting story is one of the best. The church, also known as the Christian Worship Center in Zillah, Washington, is a Church of God offshoot. And since it was regularly referred to as the Church of God, Zillah, members decided to have fun with it. There's a 10-foot metal dinosaur out front with 3,000 Christmas lights, a cross, and a sign that says "Jesus Saves." "He's not quite the monster of the movies," pastor Gary Conner. "We got him saved. He's been reformed." Okay. But when Mothra or the Smog Monster decide to take revenge and destroy this small town of 2,500 or so residents, who'll be laughing then?

United Kingdom:

• Warning to Anna church | Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, blamed by some in part for child's death, told to stop using logo of National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Associated Newspapers, Britain)
• Hague at odds with Fox over abortion | Tory leader: "Nothing has changed whatsoever in the position of our party or any other party." (The Independent, London)
• Non-Anglican priests are to be able to serve as members of British Parliament for the first time in 200 years (Ananova)

Africa:

• Clergyman recommends a warlike response to AIDS (Panafrican News Agency)
• Zambians go for sex change (Panafrican News Agency)
• Tree seen as holy cut down in Egypt | Coptic Christians say 2,000-year-old tree bent in homage to Christ (Associated Press)
• Zambia's church leaders oppose Chiluba's third term (Panafrican News Agency)

Jesse Jackson:

• Jesse's wife makes up with 'other woman' (New York Post)
• Is defiant Jesse's core of support crumbling? (Rod Dreher, New York Post)

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January (Web-only) 2001, Vol. 45