A Heavenly Place

It’s got 16 basketball courts, a Cybex fitness center, a chess club, a motorcycle club, aerobics classes, recovery meetings for alcoholics, financial planning seminars, a coffeepot that dispenses 5,000 cups an hour, and 403 toilets. That’s right, it’s a church. A new wave of full-service churches is described in today’s New York Times, in a story that is buried, relatively speaking, in the House & Home section.  “The church was deliberately designed like a mall,” the Times explains. “The sanctuary is the anchor tenant.”