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With blue carpeting and simulated yellow-stained-glass windows, pulpit and miniature organ, the decor of the three tiny chapels is Modern Fundamentalist. What distinguishes the houses of worship is their mobility. Semitrailers with lighted crosses on their tractor cabs, they belong to Transport for Christ, a nomadic nondenominational mission to the truckers of North America. The mobile chapels can usually be found parked smack amidst a clutter of oil drums, automobiles and other semitrailer rigs at spots like the Mid-Continent Truck Stop in Mesquite, Texas, or the Mass. 10 Truck Stop outside Boston...
Rice represents that passion for an instant purgative that often seizes hopelessly overburdened civilizations. No one in history ever had a better pulpit. While standing on the germ-free lunar surface, Rice departs from his scheduled extravehicular activity to speak directly to TV viewers round the world. "I have seen the earth plain," says the commander. Then instead of listening to the usual astronautical cliches and pro forma prayer, tens of millions hear Rice rage against purposelessness, corruption, pollution and "the murderous vanity that hurls us into space." Before NASA cuts him off, he has called for a Second American...
Then, in January, he, his wife and four children suddenly left the parish, leaving a letter to be read from the pulpit...
...centuries of Latin tradition, as parishioners take parts-Roman soldiers, Jesus carrying the cross-in a Good Friday procession. In Gary, Ind., a black community church goes in for karate lessons and the gospel of liberation, but the rich hymn singing and some of the rolling language from the pulpit recall old-fashioned black Baptist devotion: "Thank you Lord, for all of your goodnesses." Indeed, the series is so full of regional and ethnic accents and special religious language that it would overwhelm a foreigner who is just learning American English...
...time being, at least, Cutler does not intend to stand in the pulpit more than once a month or give up his career as a talent agent to return to the rabbinate full time. "Friday night I represent God," says Cutler. "The rest of the week it's Slappy White...