My Evangelical Epic
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2 min readOct 11, 2024
To grow up an Evangelical in America is often to be presented with “heroes” who represent God. In 2019 I started doing highly-researched profiles of them here on Medium. It was shocking and heartbreaking.
From Billy Graham to Jim Elliot, Amy Grant to Rich Mullins, it became a dark epic of performers who were very different than their public selves.
Several of my profiles have gone ultra-viral.
And Evangelicals tune in on occasion, trying to understand the portraits of heroes they don’t even recognize. A new episode of the Fun Sexy Bible Time podcast finds hosts Matthew Pierce Casey Haas discussing (starting at 36:15) my 2020 profile of Rich Mullins, the musician who did much to create the ‘CCM’ genre.
Their struggle was real.