{"id":2756,"date":"2013-11-25T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2013-11-25T00:49:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T06:49:33","slug":"christian-celebrity-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTIAN CELEBRITY CULTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sadly, celebrity is big business in American Christianity. \u00a0For example, Christian publishers don’t typically publish the very best books, but the ones by authors who have a large platform. \u00a0Indeed, platform<\/em> is one of the buzz words in the industry. \u00a0And don’t miss that most Christian publishers are an industry<\/em> not a ministry. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently, Mark Driscoll, one of the more popular “young, restless, and Reformed” pastors was on the Janet Mefferd show. \u00a0Mefferd pressed Driscoll on the issue of plagiarism. \u00a0Driscoll was not pleased. \u00a0For the record, I am not sure Driscoll knowingly plagiarized. \u00a0Motives may not matter for non-Christians, but they matter a lot for Christians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What did strike me and I found depressing, is how the celebrity culture of American Christianity seems to trump issues of accountability and scrutiny. \u00a0The well-respected historian and author, Carl Trueman, weighs in with sage insight:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.reformation21.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/if-the-top-men-take-over-who-w.php<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sadly, celebrity is big business in American Christianity. \u00a0For example, Christian publishers don’t typically publish the very best books, but the ones by authors who have a large platform. \u00a0Indeed, platform is one of the buzz words in the industry. \u00a0And don’t miss that most Christian publishers are an industry not a ministry. \u00a0 Recently, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}