In the ``giving credit where credit's due" category, I must say that while curiosity drew me to spend an hour or so last Sunday morning at the convention in Philly, I must confess to having been pleseantly surprised by the drama.
Sure there was the usual hamming it up with over-the-top histrionic gesturing and laughable synthetic beards we've come to expect; but since it stuck nearly verbatim to the events chronicled in the book of Acts from Pentecost through the trial and martydom of Stephen it was remarkable for its Christ-centricity and for the total absence of Watchtower spin or any reference to ``the Governing Body," the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" and ``organization."" Except for a few spurious ``Jehovahs" here and there, it might have easily been mistaken for some sort of Baptist pageant.