`Hell House' Draws Fire.Pastor Tim Ferguson's fire-and-brimstone brimstone: see sulfur. lessons to his flock have caused him a devilish time with folks in Littleton Littleton, city (1990 pop. 33,685), seat of Arapahoe co., N central Colo.; platted 1812, inc. 1890. It is a suburb south of Denver in an irrigated farm area. Its manufactures include construction materials, electronic games, medical supplies, metal products, and furniture. A thoroughbred racing track is in Littleton., Colorado, location of last May's Columbine Columbine, in the commedia dell'arteColumbine: see commedia dell'arte.columbine, in botanycolumbine (kŏl`əmbīn), any plant of the genus Aquilegia, temperate-zone perennials of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), popular both as wildflowers and as garden flowers. High School shootings. For nine years, Ferguson's Assemblies of God Assemblies of God, a large group of churches comprising the second largest Pentecostal organization in the United States, founded at Hot Springs, Ark., in Apr., 1914. In doctrine the Assemblies of God affirm the basic teachings of Pentecostalism (i.e., baptism with the Holy Spirit as evidenced through glossolalia and divine healing, and the daily presence of the charismatic gifts basic to the early church) and of fundamentalism, emphasizing the church in Cedar Hill, Texas, has staged "Hell House," a series of morality plays morality play, form of medieval drama that developed in the late 14th cent. and flourished through the 16th cent. The characters in the morality were personifications of good and evil usually involved in a struggle for a man's soul. The form was generally static, but it contributed significantly to the secularization of European drama. The first known moralities were called the Paternoster plays. The greatest English morality is Everyman. See miracle play. that, says Ferguson, show how sin leads to "a real place called hell."This year's plays depict a gay man dying of AIDS, teens killed while driving drunk, and a reenactment of Columbine in which trench-coated teens fire upon students and are eventually dragged to hell by demons, as a Christian victim ascends to heaven with Jesus. With psychic scars from Columbine still fresh (one victim's mother committed suicide last month), the play showed bad timing and bad taste, complain parents in Littleton. Says Connie Michalik, whose son Richard was wounded: "I think we've been through enough." |
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