For six years, The Light of the World, a daytime soaper based on the Bible, did a decorous one-a-day, Monday through Friday, for General Mills. Last March, with flour short, General Mills turned off The Light. Result: all over the U.S. church groups, which had used the show in Bible study, squawked loud & long. This week, with flour again in stock, General Mills once more beamed The Light to devoted listeners.
The show had the best of intentions: "To bring listeners the wisdom and beauty of the Bible in dramatic, exciting form." But Chapter I of Katharine Seymour's eleven episodes about...