(S11E07) When I was attending high school in a small Iowa town, two people who worked at my church, each married to different people, had an affair that quickly became public knowledge. It's impossible to keep those things quiet in any small town, because they tend to be populated with people who feel everyone else's business is their own.

The relationship between Bill and his pastor in this episode wasn't as seedy as an extra-marital affair, but I couldn't help but notice some parallels. At my church, the woman who was having the affair was almost fired because of it, and Reverend Stroup's congregation does not respond well when she tells them she and and Bill are dating, either.

Perhaps this news won't exactly set the world on fire, but it caught my attention. I grew up watching Robert Schuller's Hour of Power on Sunday mornings, where the gray-haired pastor would preach the word of God in a manner that was friendly and amicable, not the loud, obnoxious revivals you see nowadays. Schuller is now 79 and his son, Robert A. Schuller, will take over as head pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, the all-glass house of worship. The Hour of Power still takes in a worldwide audience of about twenty million. That's pretty impressive, and it continues to slaughter Cooking with Satan in the ratings.