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
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...