The Rise and Fall of America’s Greatest Christian Theme Park

How The Holy Land Experience lost its divine touch

Dan Foster
Backyard Church
Published in
6 min readMay 17

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On a warm Summer’s Day in the late 1990s, Marvin Rosenthal had a brilliant idea. You might say it was divinely inspired.

Rosenthal, a devout Christian, and Baptist Minister, had a lightbulb moment driving down Interstate 4 toward Walt Disney World. He…

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Dan Foster
Backyard Church

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