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The church of celebrity

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

In Battlement Is Core to a White Evangelical American Imagination

Alyssa: Christian celebrity requires you to believe that you are rejected or a pariah in the mainstream culture. That's something I inherited as a teenager and heard a lot about in my own sense of identity, she says. Alyssa: The idea that I might have to one day give an account and face what essentially Christians understand to be martyrdom was both scary, but also called me to a kind of zeal.

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