A review by jtisreading
Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church by Katelyn Beaty

3.0

This book is worth reading. It is interesting, but it could have been so much more. I simply hoped that Beaty would have attacked the topic with journalistic fervor. She cares about the topic but I felt she was timid in a lot of areas about what she really thinks because this assessment was extremely pedantic and surface-level. The problem with celebrity and its involvement within Christian circles is much bigger and needs a closer look than 8 chapters on a few men in the past 60 years of evangelical Christianity. Even the chapter on Kanye West was lacking in analysis. There just should have been much more in this book. Statistics, logistics, and a real focus on the narrative and the problem. Maybe Beatty didn't want to attack, but I felt there just is so much more that I've encountered in ten minutes of reflection and contemplation that is addressed in the book. I do think the chapter on Billy Graham set up the book nicely and was very fair and thoughtful.