I try not to get bogged down in celebrity gossip here, but I do like funny coincidences. So I cannot help but note that, last week, I posted an old video in which Russell Crowe played a guy who thinks about becoming a Seventh-Day Adventist minister, and today, the Associated Press reports that Crowe intends to get baptized soon — though in what denomination is not clear:
“I’d like to do it this year,” the Oscar-winning actor tells Men’s Journal. “My mom and dad decided to let my brother and me make our own decisions about God when we got to the right age. I started thinking recently, `If I believe it is important to baptize my kids, why not me?'”
Crowe says the baptism will take place in the Byzantine chapel he built at his country ranch in Australia for his wedding to Danielle Spencer in 2003. The couple have two sons, 3-year-old Charlie and 1-year-old Tennyson.
“It is consecrated and everything,” Crowe says in the magazine’s December issue, now on newsstands. “Charlie was baptized there. And when Tennyson gets baptized there, I will, too.”
The word “Byzantine” makes me think of the Orthodox church, of course, but it could just as easily be a Catholic chapel.
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