A Christian website which allows visitors to chat and exchange religious-themed videos was recently named America's fastest-growing website, drawing more than four million users last month. Texas-based GodTube combines the video clip-sharing principle of YouTube, the social networking feature of Facebook and live webcasting.
Popular attractions include music, comedy (for example, a squirrel singing I Will Always Love You) and heated theological debates. The site contains 25,000 videos with 300 to 500 fresh ones arriving each day. Their content is monitored by a team of seminary students. Members of other religions are invited to participate but they cannot proselytize. Atheists are welcome too, and they may share their point of view "as long as it's done respectfully".
Chris Wyatt, GodTube's founder, said he set it up because churches were having difficulty reaching young people "in a language they can understand". He says GodTube users on Sunday mornings outnumber the congregation of mega church pastor Joel Osteen in Houston. The site is growing so rapidly that it recently launched its own news service. Another spin-off, Godcaster, will soon allow any church in the world to stream its services free.
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