Jesus Sells
• Christian Pop Culture
Jeremy Lott writes about the Christian Booksellers Association annual convention in Reason.
What followed had all the trappings of a religious service -- songs, testimonies, a sermon. Technically, it was a religious service. But it was overtly commercialized to a greater extent than any religious gathering I had ever observed (and as the son of a Baptist minister, I’ve seen a lot of them).
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