Worlds collided last month in Brooklyn. In a dark neighborhood of warehouses called DUMBO, in a theater usually reserved for edgy bands and performance artists, real actors performed, straight up and without irony, “Hell House,” an evangelical Christian v

Ten years ago a Colorado preacher wrote a manual about how to stage a Christian-themed haunted house. It sold for $199.

Sometimes a scavenger hunt is just a scavenger hunt. That’s all it is at many churches, where the frenzied chase to collect trinkets and complete silly tasks is a perennial activity aimed at getting teenagers into their doors.