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“This podcast was refreshing and another much needed splash of water in the face for American evangelicals. I grew up with a very brilliant brother who was a real voice in the evangelical movement. He was an actual person of integrity, decency, and intellectual firepower. I was exposed to his world and appreciated the earnestness of some of the characters in it. But while I loved him dearly, I recognized from his young years, at the root of it all, he was a person who psychologically needed to believe in a higher power, and brought all of his intellect to build a fortress around this primal need, to make it unimpeachable. And over the course of four decades I watched in awe the people and things he embraced that were obvious, old school charlatans and cons, and eventually revealed to be just that, but yet were not obvious to him and his peers at the time they were to people like me who were not wearing psychological blinders. I came to see that white Christian evangelicals have a super power to ignore flashing red lights of poor behavior and full scale grifting and co-opting, even after they’ve been used. I say all that because of course Mark Driscoll was making it up as he went along, and abused the trust that so many of the overly credible men around him vested in him. Of course Mark did and said what he needed to to grow his influence, lifestyle and cultish hold over his followers. American Christians love authority figures and no matter how many times their trust is abused they come back for more, even a fellow as intellectually gifted as my brother. The pattern is scary to me, seeing the need in the hearts of evangelicals for the idea of god that leads them to run to every charismatic interpreter and soothesayer who pops up and can at lest temporarily front as a bridge to that hope/need. And when the human failing and the con is reveled, they sit down at the next card table and play the game. Overall I liked it and I hope it opens some eyes.”
Hockey9966 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/10/22
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“When I saw this podcast series from Christianity Today, I thought, “Really? Do we need to plow this ground again?” But I did not expect such a thorough, careful, considered and well-executed podcast. The Church needs to hear this. Christians need to learn how to better support imperfect pastors...”Read full review »
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