May 18, 2005

Colorado Springs and the megachurch

The Revealer is pointing off to at least half of an article soon to run in Harper's Magazine about Colorado Springs, and Ted Haggard's megachurch there. I'm increasingly fascinated by the media attention being paid to mega churches, and I can't quite figure out if it has to do with a sort of consumerist appreciation for success/excess, or a fear of the role of some evangelicals in political processes. Whatever the case, it's an interesting article and worth pondering, for these churches are increasingly defining what is "Christian" in the popular imagination. Posted by hessma at May 18, 2005 01:14 PM
Comments

Makes me kind of yearn for a church consisting of a livingroomful of people celebrating the Eucharist over a coffee table.;-)

Posted by: LutheranChik at May 18, 2005 09:15 PM

Yes, I know what you mean! And these days, celebrating Eucharist in a living room makes even more sense given some of the current dynamics in the Roman Catholic community...

Posted by: Mary Hess at May 19, 2005 12:57 PM