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...many people turn up at the Willow Creek Community Church northwest of Chicago, for example, that a traffic controller atop the building is needed to supervise the uniformed attendants who direct cars across the acres of asphalt. Befuddled visitors are greeted with information booths in the lobby. At Calvary Chapel in Santa Ana, Calif., converts are so numerous that they are baptized in the Pacific Ocean, dozens at a time...
...majority of Protestant congregations are not huge, expanding or glamorous, and tens of millions of U.S. believers are content with their more traditional and modest surroundings. Still, the superchurches have come to represent something new and powerful in most metropolitan areas. Calvary Chapel has even cloned itself, creating 370 daughter congregations across the U.S. Experts expect to see more of these Christian emporiums -- and a consequent permanent alteration in the ecology of American Protestantism...
...Henry. But then the script insists that these epiphanies be spelled out in illuminated capital letters; and Nichols, a jaunty yachtsman of a director, must trawl through treacle. Strings swell at the merest emotion. And -- lordy! -- dog-reaction shots! By the end, when the pooch trots into a school chapel, you may want the animal...
Senior Class Chapel Service-- Memorial Church...
...Connecticut to its present home: a hulking, red brick former Jesuit seminary, St. Andrew's-on-the-Hudson. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the great theologian, is buried there. Stained- glass windows depicting scenes from the life of Christ adorn a student dining hall that was once the seminary's chapel. It also contains a fresco of the Last Supper, boarded up for safekeeping...