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No. 316: "Don't Do It, Deacon Don!"

Deacon Don Thomas of the Lily of the Valley Church of God in Christ in Fairbanks, Alaska, defends what he does to reach the community: "Yeah, we want to compel people to come to Christ, but at the same time we don't want to intrude on people. I think there's a big difference." What does Deacon Don do?

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(Question courtesy of Charlie Glassenberg.)

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Tuesday's Question (No. 315)--"Cool, Calm, Rejected":

"They're taking something that's about as likely to happen as a meteorite falling on your head and telling everybody that it could happen any time," said Dr. Merlin D. Tuttle, about those worrywarts at the New York State Health Department. Name that exaggerated (or not) danger.

"A meteorite falling on your head."--Katha Pollitt and David Feige (Marshall Efron, Tim Carvell, Eric Berlin, Richard Nikonovich-Kahn, Francis Heaney, and Dave Gaffen had similar answers.)

"Paintings containing elephant dung falling on your head."--Merrill Markoe

"Merlin D. Tuttle falling on your head."--Susan Vance

"Being christened 'Merlin D. Tuttle.' "--Colleen Werthmann (similarly, Richard Nikonovich-Kahn)

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