Topics:<\/b> Authenticity; Entertainment; Idolatry; Integrity; Longing; Spirituality; Teachers; Television<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Deuteronomy 11:16; Mark 13:22; Acts 17:29; 2 Timothy 4:3\u20134; 2 Peter 2:1; 1 John 5:21<\/p>\n
She has hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show<\/i> for more than twenty years,<\/i> amassing billions of dollars in assets and attracting more than 49 million viewers each week in the United States. People look to Oprah Winfrey for advice on everything from genocide in Rwanda to the best-tasting oatmeal cookies.<\/p>\n
Many people also regard her as a spiritual leader. According to USA Today<\/i>, \u201cBy the late 1990s, Winfrey\u2019s focus was Change Your Life TV, and a New Age message was more prevalent. She preached, making the message of her life\u2014take responsibility, and greatness will follow\u2014the substance of the show. Keep a personal journal, purchase self-indulgent gifts, take time for you because you deserve it. The notes rang true to millions of viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cathleen Falsani, religion writer for the Chicago Sun-Times<\/i>, asks straight out: \u201cHas Oprah become America\u2019s pastor?\u201d<\/p>\n
There is evidence to support this conclusion. According to a November 2006 poll conducted by Beliefnet.com, which looks at how religion and spirituality intersect with popular culture, 33 percent of its sixty-six hundred respondents said Winfrey has had \u201ca more profound impact\u201d than their pastors on their spiritual lives.<\/p>\n
Chris Altrock, pastor of Highland Street Church of Christ in Memphis, Tennessee, says, \u201cOur culture is changing as churches are in decline and the bulk of a new generation is growing up outside of religion. People are now turning up at The Church of Oprah instead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim Twitchell, a professor at the University of Florida, believes that Oprah reverence makes sense. \u201cReligion essentially is based on high anxiety of what\u2019s going to happen to you,\u201d he says. \u201cWinfrey pushes the idea that you have a life out there, and it\u2019s better than the one you have now, and go get it. It has to do with this deep American faith and yearning to be reborn. To start again.\u201d<\/p>\n
In The Gospel according to Oprah<\/i>, Marcia Nelson says Oprah\u2019s integrity has enhanced her spiritual stature. \u201cOne of the things that\u2019s key is she walks her talk,\u201d Nelson says. \u201cThat\u2019s really, really important in today\u2019s culture. People who don\u2019t walk their talk fall from a great pedestal\u2014think of scandals in the Catholic Church and in televangelism. If you\u2019re not doing what you say you do, woe be unto you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Ann Oldenburg, \u201cThe Divine Miss Winfrey?\u201d USA Today<\/i> (May 11, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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