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megachurches

  1. Pádraigín Ní Saorlaith

    How To Get My Old Church To Stop Contacting Me

    I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, but I have nowhere else to put this. The Baptist church I more or less grew up in got a new pastor and within a matter of weeks went the way of the prosperity gospel megachurch. My family left last summer. My parents and sister started attending a...
  2. Fish and Bread

    Large Parishes

    I was reading an article about a Catholic parish that has basically turned into the Catholic version of a mega-church, and recalled a parish some of my relatives used to belong to that was of such a great size that they had to basically replace their existing building with something that from...
  3. Fish and Bread

    Cathedrals vs. Megachurches: The Theology of Buildings

    Here is a link to an interview with an artist who went around the country taking pictures of Protestant evangelical mega-churches as an art project: http://religiondispatches.org/the-higher-the-dome-the-closer-to-god-megachurches-explores-the-arid-architecture-of-americas-new-sanctuaries/ I...