`Hell House' Draws Fire.

• Author: Yardley, Jim
• Position: Minister Tim Ferguson stages controversial morality plays in Littleton, Colorado - Brief Article

Pastor Tim Ferguson's fire-and-brimstone lessons to his flock have caused him a devilish time with folks in Littleton, Colorado, location of last May's Columbine High School shootings. For nine years, Ferguson's Assemblies of God church in Cedar Hill, Texas, has staged "Hell House," a series of morality plays 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...