A "native" Christian ethnographer finds religious education at this church-sponsored school to pursue two distinct, and occasionally conflicting, curricula: "love" and "purity." The curriculum of love draws on what Turner called liminality and communitas in an effort to promote spiritual "encounters with God," whereas the curriculum of purity stresses adult-student hierarchies as students are urged to reject "worldly" popular culture. Adults were caught between the two goals when one student asserted a gay identity.