Comedy

Characters: 4 female

Interior Set

We are backstage in the girl's locker room, at the annual Queen of Hearts Beauty Pageant at a high school in a small town in Alabama in 1976 with two girls who are competing in the pageant, and two who aren't, for reasons which supply a lot of the humor, and a lot of the drama, in this much produced and much acclaimed new play. Feathers fly when the "new girl," Sherri Lee, wins she is very popular with the boys, which makes her very unpopular with the girls. There are intimations of Vanities here, as well as Crimes of the Heart. There are four...

Sometimes transitioning rapidly from a microscope to a telescope can be quite disorienting. However, there are applications in which a microscope just will not apply. For decades, many churches have only viewed ministry microscopically. The failure and/or refusal of churches to take a telescopic look into the future will lead to certain failures. In Toxic Traditions, Dr. Brad Bailey makes an effort to realign the readers focus and persuade people to evaluate their traditions telescopically and not microscopically.

While some may view Toxic Traditions from a critical standpoint, what seems to...