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While speaking at the kickoff of the United Nation's "Free and Equal" campaign to promote gay rights worldwide, retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 81, raised more than a few eyebrows when he said he would rather go to hell than a "homophobic heaven" or serve a "homophobic God," the UK Daily Mail reported last Saturday.

In Herman Melville’s classic "Moby Dick," the character Queequeg explains that his extensive tattoos are a part of his Maori culture, saying, “We tattoo what is sacred in our culture on ourselves”. A third of the population has taken it upon themselves (no pun intended) to permanently display what is important to them and what they value in life on their bodies.

Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu told Gonzaga University graduates recently to, “Dream, dream God’s dream, dream as you are, incredibly idealistic creatures. You do believe, don’t you, that this is a world that can become a world where war is no more?”

Last month Christian fiction author Frank Peretti visited Real Life Ministries in Post Falls. He didn’t get a great review from our science writer. Now he’s back.