Roger Berkowitz

The Church in Dark Times

Christian Living

“Mike Cosper has written a parable for our dark times. Through the example of Mars Hill Church under a corrupt and authoritarian pastor, Cosper aims to make manifest the broader corruption in twenty-first-century America that allows a pastor to run a church like a criminal organization—and to have the religiously motivated staff and leadership of the church participate in his narcissistic power grabs. Exploring Arendt’s thinking about the power of ideology and the banality of evil, Cosper turns the story of Mars Hill Church into a window to our dark times.”