Tattoos as evangelical chic

Christian Century, Dec 23, 1998

> Others remember a deceased loved one with an angel tattoo. There may not be the same intense burst of romantic intoxication that leads young men to permanently inscribe the name of their current paramour on their bodies. But advocates of religious tattoos say the love between God and human beings may be the one kind that endures long enough to heed the warning of tattooists everywhere to young lovers: "Love lasts forever, but a tattoo lasts six months longer."