This morning, I listened to the "This American Life" podcast on the way to work. I kept thinking, "Damn, Jar would love this."
So I'm just throwing up a link to
the site, so he (and other people) can listen. NPR's description blurb sums it up well...
quote:
The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson... an evangelical pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His church, Higher Dimensions, was once one of the biggest in the city, drawing crowds of 5,000 people every Sunday. But several years ago, scandal engulfed the Reverend, he was denounced by almost all his former supporters, and today his congregation is just a few hundred people. He didn't have an affair. He didn't embezzle lots of money. His sin was something that to a lot of people is far worse... he stopped believing in hell.
The hour-long program doesn't so much chronicle Pearson's struggle with the idea of eternal torment, but concentrates on the Oklahoma evangelical community's response to Pearson's "Gospel of Inclusion." Very interesting listen, and right up the alley of a few people here.
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