21.   Technology separates families, and churches try to fill the void.

22.   That worked so well that now the church is trying to raise enough money to landscape and buy computers for its school, the Irvington Christian Academy.

23.   Television, on the other hand, is a poor medium for what the church is trying to accomplish.

24.   The bar of boring has been raised in recent years as churches try to reach and hold a generation raised on interactive toys and constant visual stimulation.

25.   The boys bring attention to the church, and the church tries to make men out of the boys.

26.   The church also has tried to shut the door on debate on whether woman can be priests.

27.   The church has tried to revive the lost faith through vigorous advocacy.

28.   The church tries to create celebrative services, using familiar hymns and jazz, gospel music and songs in Spanish, he said.

29.   The church had been trying to evict them since July, but they had refused to go, he said.

30.   The church was simply trying to prevent the kind of social disorder that had led to school shootings and rampant teen-age pregnancy, he said.