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...First Presbyterian in Crookston, Minn., and a partner with the FTE, which supports young ministers and religious teachers. "And to the extent that these churches are anchoring institutions, it's a crisis of community." The sign for one lovely wood-framed church in nearby Buxton, N.D., says it all: GRUE LUTHERAN CHURCH. FOUNDED SINCE 1879. PASTOR--and then a blank where a name should...
...town of Warren, Minn., adds a degree of difficulty: he's Methodist, but one of his two yoked churches is Presbyterian. Another pastor travels 200 miles (about 320 km) every weekend to serve five churches. A botched three-pastor attempt to connect three already yoked churches (including Grue) with four more resulted in, among other things, shut-ins being overlooked and not receiving Communion for years...
...STATISTICS SEEM grue- some enough. Nearly 150,000 Iranian and 60,000 Iraqi soldiers killed. Billions of dollars spent on the war effort each month. Iranian children as young as nine or 10 slaughtered in suicide assaults on Iraqi minefields. And the stakes seem high enough. Sixty percent of the West's oil flows from the Gulf. An Iranian victory might unleash a wave of radical Islamic fundamentalism throughout the region, threatening the stability of moderate Arab states...
...humankind by nature, alien forces or the Undead. But the treatment manages to be both perfunctory and languid; the jolts can be predicted by any ten-year-old with a stop watch. Only the story in which Evil Plutocrat E.G. Marshall is eaten alive by cockroaches mixes giggles and grue in the right measure...
...youth picture, and it hardly seems the sort of thing that would induce Mom and Dad to spring for a sitter and a night on the town. Maybe the producers were trying to crash the senior-citizens market, give the old folks a thrill and a little grue some encouragement against the insults of aging. A notion like that conjures up entertaining visions of audiences full...