By
Jonty Langley2025-03-21T09:20:00
Following the news that Hailey Bieber has attacked preachers for their use of alliteration, Jonty Langley asks whether this just another sign of our consumer church culture, or if the celebrity’s criticism is correct
Petition prayerfully. Pursue perfection. Practice patience. Fine advice, reasonable alliteration. And just the kind of thing you’d hear in a local church on a Sunday: the sub-headings of a sermon, the heart of a homily, the tickboxes of the talk, if you will. Nothing cringeworthy or controversial, right?
Wrong.
Hailey Bieber, wife of Justin (which we mention for context not because she is not noteworthy without her husband), took to social media recently, panning pastors, pillorying them, even, protesting their use of alliterative cliches and picking apart the predisposition of pundits in pews to praise the practice.
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