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A Megachurch for the Glamorous
Blessed with celebrity congregants, the evangelical Hillsong Church was poised to take America by storm before it fell prey to sex scandals. Now megachurch America is following its blue-state blueprint.
Natasha Lasky is a writer and filmmaker based in Chicago. She is the author of Britney Spears’s Blackout, part of the 33 1/3 series from Bloomsbury Publishing.
Blessed with celebrity congregants, the evangelical Hillsong Church was poised to take America by storm before it fell prey to sex scandals. Now megachurch America is following its blue-state blueprint.