The Crisis of Christian Celebrity

If there’s no understanding of sin, there’s no desire for salvation.

Terms that I grew up with, like “lost souls”, “sinners” and “unsaved” have less meaning to most people with every passing year.

Instead of knowing they’re lost, people feel lonely and disconnected. An awareness of sin has given way to a sense of hopelessness. And self-discovery has

But as we’ve seen in the last few years, and any social networking site will reveal, this has not led us to a utopian space free of conflict. Rather, conflict is rife because there are no outside social norms of decorum, humility, and mercy. Those are norms and virtues that are just too slow for a curated self in the world of social acceleration.

But these moral failures are indivisibly linked to the accelerating pace of life and the alienation that was birthed by the pursuit of reach for reach’s sake.

Some people use the cover of faith to get in other people’s business when they have not been asked. They tell themselves they are just showing compassion and care.