Religion is this week"s big issue. After the "Pioneer Journal" advises the Council to look to Bonanza City"s collective soul, the Council members decide to try to force everyone to attend a catch-all religious service. This goes even worse than you would expect, given the fact that a lot of different religions are represented in the town, and almost nobody wants to share a place of worship with people of different beliefs. But then that night, Morgan finds a low-key way to bring everyone together informally for a few quiet prayers. Do you think the Council will see that there are other modes of leadership besides yelling at everyone? No, me neither. The theme continues, as this week"s showdown is a "steeplechase." Except that instead of being a steeplechase in the horse-race sense, it"s a race for the teams to assemble giant jigsaw puzzles of -- what else? Churches. Blue wins again, returning to the Upper Class; Red are again Merchants; Yellow is back in the kitchen, to general dismay (including that of the Yellow team, because Taylor"s balls are just that huge); and Green is back to doing what Green usually does. Since they all finish within the time limit, the reward choice is between a miniature golf course in the town and a library of religious texts. The Council finally wises up a little and puts the choice to the town for a vote. And the holy books carry the day. And everybody learns a little something about religious tolerance, even though several girls watch Anjay"s Hindu prayer as though he"s some kind of zoo exhibit. With Taylor and the Yellow team back to ignoring the kitchen on a full-time basis, the District"s one diligent worker, Zach, organizes a multi-team dishwashing session to get it done, which puts him in the running for a Gold Star. Also in the running: Morgan again, as well as Greg. But we"ll get to that in a minute. At the Town Hall meeting, Taylor has given up any pretense at caring about the town"s rapidly declining opinion of her, and openly admits to Jonathan and everyone that it doesn"t bother her too much. Why do the members of the Yellow team still get their salaries? When Jonathan asks if anyone wants to go home this time, he gets a taker: nine-year-old Cody, whose attempts to drown his homesickness in root beer proved unsuccessful. And the Gold Star goes to Morgan, to nobody"s surprise -- not even Greg"s. Next week: politics!