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Scot McKnight's avatar

One temptation to all his exposure of toxicities in churches will be to tell stories of good churches, and we will end up valorizing them and the next thing we will be creating more celebrity pastors and celebrity churches. Which at least in part got us into this trouble. We resisted telling good stories of living pastors and churches in A Church called Tov for that very reason. I know you are not suggesting this one bit and are instead saying we’ve had enough of the exposure (I mostly agree) but we have a hero problem in evangelicalism and it needs to be dealt a death blow, and perhaps these exposures will accomplish that.

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Ben MacGill's avatar

Not a podcast, but Winn Collier’s bio of Eugene Peterson “A Burning In My Bones” has been a nice antidote to all of the dismay of Mars Hill and the like.

I’m sure plenty of people are aware of it. But wanted to share as a way of pointing towards something a bit more life giving, especially for anyone in ministry.

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