Sometimes you happen across something that piques your interest because it's something you're familiar with. The Potter's House are a fundamentalist Christian mob who have a habit of gathering in the city on a Friday night, handing out flyers for some Christian rock concert or 'miracle' healing session, singing hymns in big group and haranguing passers by in very loud voices about how damned and abominable they are and how they're all going to hell if they don't convert to Christianity. Now this sort of thing gets done by various fundamentalist groups but there's more to these guys than meets the eye as you can see here.

I always notice two things about these guys - firstly their membership is young, often very young and secondly, having seen these guys in action over the last 10 years, the number of stalwarts in the crowd is very low, suggesting a high turnover as people get disillusioned with simplistic answers and inherent vacuousness of fundamentalism.

Meanwhile, there's a fascinating write up on tennis-champ-turned-fundy-pastor Margaret Court here.