S7E07 Katelyn Beaty: Why Christian celebrity culture needs a cure

Celebrity and Christianity. What do you think about the relationship between the two? Does celebrity culture contribute to the downfall of leaders whose star rises too high?

In a time where news of Christian leader’s moral failures is common, and sadly becoming unsurprising, do we need to ask questions about whether pastors’ platforms are distracting from the work of ministry that gave it to them?

Journalist Katelyn Beaty is the former editor of US-based evangelical magazine 'Christianity Today', and a keen observer of trends in the American church. On this episode we talk about her book 'Celebrities for Jesus' and the origin of celebrity culture in Christianity, Jesus’ relationship to fame and the lost art of contentment. 

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