There’s a bizarre new paper in town called The Seattle Faze. It’s aimed at a black audience. There are articles on the Black Panthers and the African Heritage Festival & Parade; promotions for a new Urban Contemporary radio station, and a full-page editorial about the state of local black churches written by Faze Founder/Publisher/Managing Editor Rev. Julius Collins. It’s this last item where things get a little bizarre. I’m no lawyer, but in what seems to me like a potentially libelous attack, Collinsreferring to “the recent upheaval in one of our major churches”writes a screed against local preachers who are “running around with every sister of the church willing to spread their legs …They rob the church of its offerings and use it [to] buy fancy cars and dress like the Superflys that hustle on the street. Members are nothing more than ‘tricks’ to be used and abused…” Collins concludes the screedtitled “A Thin Line Between a Preacher and a Pimp” with a non sequitur rant against female preachers: “It is not a woman’s place to usurp the authority given by God to preach the Gospel, that is for the Preacher, and by all definitions a preacher is a male role.” Rev. Collins’s righteous paper also comes with a pair of escort ads. Their web address is: bobbyfleeks.tripod.com/seattlefazenewspaperonline.