Moving today on the RNS wire (available to subscribers to Religion News Service) is a story on the growth of electronic churches. Pastor Craig Groeschel, for example, preaches at 23 services on most weekends, all but five of which are delivered electronically. Check out his website here.

Also moving on the wire today, a commentary by Rabbi A. James Rudin on the Dalai Lama.

UPDATE: We’re also moving a story from Rome on the renewal of ecumenical dialogue between the Orthodox Churches and the Vatican. A representative of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, spiritual leader of the Orthodox world, met with Pope Benedict XVI today.