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...minutes of Christian improv: "No, no, can't say that, nope, maybe if ... no." In response to a game in which we had to communicate a murder scenario to one another in gibberish, our audience shouted its increasingly bland ideas with fervor: "Turtle!" "Balloon!" "IHOP!" "Bowling!" When one sinner yelled "Uranus!" our troupe member repeated it as "Urahnus." We even had to change the classic "guy walks into a bar, and the bartender says" scenario into "guy walks into a restaurant, and the manager says." This was one tight ahnus-ed group. (See the top 10 religion stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christian Improv: What's Funny at Warren's Church | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...hear a prayer uttered or a compassionate word spoken on behalf of those the proposition would most affect. The church seems callous to the epidemic of suicides among young gay Mormons. No matter how often Mormon leaders utter that worn adage "We hate the sin but love the sinner," it will sound as hollow as it is hackneyed. Alan Bahr, LAFAYETTE, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...seven," he says, "I saw Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain, and discovered the movies, loved them and and swallowed them whole. ... Musicals, melodramas, westerns: Nothing was too rich or too poor for my rapacious appetite, and I gorged myself with a frequency that would shame a sinner." But he wasn't a sinner; he was a convert to the platonic ideal Hollywood painted: "In all those movies it was always Christmas and it was always perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Time and the City: Terence Davies' Liverpool Memories | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...Sinner!” screamed Felicity, charging down the staircase on Zalathal’s back, her naked breasts bouncing like individual Amazons...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE STABLE BOY | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...Roxanna!” screamed Frederick. Blinded by tears, he stumbled to the door and followed after. Felicity hurled books after him, screaming herself: “Go to her! Yes, go to her, sinner...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE STABLE BOY | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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