Episode 1.16 Big and Shiny and Amazing

Ups and Downs and Foibles, Individualism and Community, Self-Aggrandizement in the Name of Other Good Things, Cults of Personality

November 04, 2014

Tagged: Christianity, ethics, technology

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In which we take a megachurch pastor’s resignation as a jumping off point for talking about individualism and community in the church, self-aggrandizement in the name of evangelism and church growth, and the danger of cults of personality, not only but especially in Christian communities.

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