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plays no less mighty a role in society.
Evangelical leaders have the ear of
presidents; dominate thousands of
hours of TV time; and run multimilliondollar
businesses, with the most prominent
boasting their own production
companies, recording studios, and distribution
deals with media giants like
Time Warner.
Saddleback also has one more thing
in common with Harvard Business
School: its debt to—and propagation
of—the Culture of Personality.
It’s a Sunday morning in August
2006, and I’m standing at the center of
a dense hub of sidewalks on Saddleback’s
campus. I consult a signpost, the
kind you see at Walt Disney World,
with cheerful arrows pointing every
which way: Worship Center, Plaza
Room, Terrace Café, Beach Café. A
nearby poster features a beaming young
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