Plenty of virtual places to worship God

With Good Friday and Easter Sunday upon us, I read a timely article from USA Today detailing the various places of worship inside Second Life. A search for “church” under places in Second Life detailed there were many church locations. If you look closely at the screenshot above, yes, even blasphemy is represented.

… a growing number are traditional, if virtual, places of prayer, study, support and counseling. Faust, an ordained evangelical minister, had no desire to pastor a real-world church or give up his day job programming websites. Instead, he spent about the cost of a Starbucks mocha latte to buy a Second Life island for the non-denominational evangelical ALM Cyber Church. It looks like a contemporary church, complete with a drum set, Bible studies, a concert hall and a recreation center.

Here are pictures and SLurls of several different places of worship in Second Life (please forgive the irony of the Borg costume):

Lifechurch.TV [SLurl] on Experience Island is planning several events during Easter weekend, including video streamed all over the island.

ALM CyberChurch [SLurl] – on the table inside the church is a calendar of event notecard giver which points Christians to various places of worship.

Changed out of my Borg avatar upon arrival of the Hare Krishna Community Temple [SLurl] which prompted a notecard on TP that reads (all caps is theirs, sorry): “PLEASE BE AWARE – THIS IS A PG AREA – NAKED AVATARS – WEAPONS – VIRTUAL NARCOTICS & ALCOHOL ARE NOT PERMITTED ON THIS LAND – THOSE ABUSING THIS MAY BE EJECTED WITHOUT WARNING.”

No pews in sight at the the St. Nicholas Avatarian Orthodox Church [SLurl].

SDG Northbound Community Church [SLurl] is a non-denominational church with services at 8pm SLT Sat evenings.

Mormon Tabernacle [SLurl]

And of course last but not least, the Second Life Church of God [SLurl]