When ‘success’ becomes a vice rather than a virtue

Book review: “Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church” by Katelyn Beaty, ★★★★☆

Worship at a church in Brighton, Mich. Photo by Bill Hamway; licensed via Unsplash.

Author Katelyn Beaty grew up in the American evangelical Christian subculture, and as an editor she is part of the evangelical publishing industry. But that hasn’t kept her from being critical of one of the most visible characteristics of the evangelical movement in recen…