S2 Ep1053: Is Christian Journalism Exposing Scandals or Becoming Failure Porn? Patrick Miller

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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In this episode, Patrick and I discuss the question in the title. Reporting on scandals and abuse and the misuse of power is absolutely necessary. Sin needs to be exposed. Corrupt leaders need to be taken down. But is there a way of reporting on these issues that could produce unforeseen and unintentional damage for the church? Should we feed an audience hungry for failure porn with…failure porn, even if the said porn is accurate? Lots of nitty gritty questions here, and Patrick and I discuss them all with, what I hope is, honesty and humility. Patrick Miller is a pastor and cultural commentator who writes about politics, culture, and technology, contributing articles to Christianity Today, Newsweek, The Gospel Coalition, and other publications. His podcast, Truth Over Tribe is one of Apple's top news commentary podcasts, featuring interviews with leading Christian thinkers, writers, and scholars. He's the co-author of Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant. Patrick received a Master of Divinity from Covenant Theological Seminary, and pastors a politically diverse church, The Crossing. He and his wife, Emily, have two children. You can connect with him on Twitter: @patrickkmiller_

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0:00.0	Hey, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the rom. My guest today is Patrick Miller,
0:04.3	who is a pastor and cultural commentator who writes about politics, culture, and technology,
0:08.3	contributing articles to Christianity today, Newsweek, the gospel coalition, and other publications.
0:13.8	He is the co-host of one of my favorite podcasts, Truth Over Tribe, and is also the co-author
0:20.6	with Keith Simon. Well, Patrick and Keith both co-host the podcast and they both co-wrote
0:27.5	the book of the same name, Truth Over Tribe, pledging allegiance to the lamb, not the donkey,
0:32.2	or the elephant. Patrick received a master divinity degree from Covenant Theological Seminary
0:37.1	and pastors, a politically diverse church called The Crossing. And Patrick has become a friend
0:42.4	over the last several months, and we dialogue about lots of stuff, kind of offline going on.
0:48.1	And this podcast is focused on, as the title suggests, Christian journalism and how it addresses
0:55.9	typically celebrity accounts of abuse or scandal in the church. And yeah, I just had a wonderful
1:02.1	conversation with Patrick. I hope you enjoy it. Please welcome back to the show if you want to
1:05.7	only Patrick Miller. Patrick, you've been stirring things up on Twitter. The good way.
1:20.9	And we had this recent thread about, for lack of better terms, Christian journalism,
1:29.6	and specifically how Christian journalism, I'm thinking of Christianity today, the famous
1:36.4	Mike Cosper podcast, which I really loved, with the rise and fall of Mars Hill, and then
1:43.2	just many different forms of Christian journalism. That is exposing abuses in the church
1:49.7	and I think that's clearly a good thing in of itself. I mean, we could just start there.
1:55.9	But then you raise a question, you know, the whole failure porn thing, or not even failure porn,
2:00.4	but beyond that, like, should we raise questions of if everything we're reporting on is abuse,
2:07.3	does that create a, could that create an unhelpful, more perspective of the church?
2:14.2	And I'm going to leave it at that. Can you summarize that Twitter thread? How that went?
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