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Mega-health: Can a megachurch be healthy?

In the Shift

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Are You Staying When You Really Want to Leave?

Some of the harm is produced by unwritten rules that aren't written down everywhere. It's what said in those meetings to say, no, you still have to come. The fact that a grown adult would say, okay, then I'll be there even though it's so bad for them in that moment tells you that there's an incredible level of systemic coercion going on. "It's sometimes hard to exactly put your finger on whether something is invitation or encouragement or pressure or coercion"

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