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Faith Adjacent

Favored or Forsaken: Celebrity Christians

Faith Adjacent

The Popcast Media Group

Society & Culture, Education

4.85K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of news about Carl Lentz, we’re taking a broader look at celebrity Christian culture. In this episode, we deconstruct the difference between celebrity Christians and Christian celebrities, as well as discuss their rise to power, the different standards we hold them to and potential checks and balances that would solve all our problems.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Favourite or Forsaken. I'm your host and resident Babel's

0:14.8

scholar Aaron Moon. Because Babeldenge episodes are mostly looking backwards, Favourite or

0:19.2

Forsaken is an episode devoting it to looking to the present and future as we consider current

0:24.3

events to the religious lens to decide if they are Favourite or Forsaken. Joining me on this

0:29.8

faith-based journey is Jamie Golden and Knox McCoy. Guys, how are you today? Are you feeling

0:35.1

Favourite or Forsaken? I just got my negative COVID test here and something a little real

0:39.7

favorite. You're back after a 14 day quarantine. Knox just got a negative test after possibly

0:45.8

exposing me to COVID. Yep. So I feel really good. We're all very favorite. Very favorite

0:50.4

today. Thank you, Jesus. So we're going to start this conversation. We're going to talk

0:55.7

a little bit about celebrity Christians. Next, you want to talk about why we want to

0:59.5

talk about celebrity Christians. Yeah, you know, we had sometimes look at the podcast

1:02.9

and biz. It's just sometimes it gives. Sometimes it takes away. Last Favourite or Forsaken,

1:08.1

I think we recorded it. And then after we recorded the news about Carl Lentz came out. So

1:13.1

we didn't get a good chance or opportunity to talk about that. So we're not going to talk

1:16.4

about him specifically here. We're not going to talk about his abs. We're not going

1:19.3

to talk about those abs or like that V or how he like showcases it in a big way. So we

1:23.7

thought there's a good adjacent conversation to have regarding Carl Lentz. And we thought

1:28.3

that was about like celebrity Christians, Christian celebrities that whole deal, that

1:32.7

whole corner of the internet. That's right. So let's define first what celebrity Christian

1:37.4

is. Because there is a difference between a celebrity Christian and a Christian celebrity.

1:42.8

Yes. I like this distinction. Right. It's what is the adjective? What is the noun? Right.

1:47.7

And then the noun is what made them famous. Where they are celebrity first or a Christian

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