Messed-Up Mississippi Girl
Messed-Up Mississippi Girl
Paula White and the Imperfect Church
This chapter explains how Paula White strategically integrates her message and ministry into mainstream American religious culture and crafts a model of the emotionally healthy Christian who is honest about her shortcomings. She is a best-selling author, noted conference speaker, life coach, and television personality. Her message infuses an emphasis on God's transforming power with the raw and honest faith of postmodern confessional culture. As the “Oprah Winfrey” of the evangelical world, White finesses dialogues with celebrity experts about self-actualization and the nitty-gritty, day-to-day realities of life. By integrating religion with American longings for youth, beauty, health, and sexual fulfillment, she offers an empowering and self-therapeutic brand of Christianity that teaches people how to become physically fit, mentally tough, and biblically literate, while trusting in the promises of God for dramatic change in life.
Keywords: American evangelicalism, evangelicals, ministry, religious culture, Christianity
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