S2 E16: Lance Hough: The Abuse of Commodifying Creativity in Church

Liminal Living

S2 E16: Lance Hough, The Abuse of Commodifying Creativity

What happens when a church continually commodifies creativity for a Sunday morning experience? Today, I talked with a friend and former church creative director, Lance Hough. Lance experienced leadership abuse under a few different pastors that led to an existential crisis concerning his faith and how we experience it in a modern western church experience, and the eventual leaving of ministry and healing of trauma it caused. Lance is a creative individual, and many churches can take advantage of creatives and transform art into a religious commodity to be bought and sold and traded on a Sunday. It ends up being an abusive cycle for those who create and have a stunting effect on the maturity of the attendees who become religious consumers.

Time Stamps for the episode:

2:08: Introduction
4:26: Faith roots
7:47: Serving in Church to Career in Church
11:32: How the Sausage is Made
15:51: Abusive Leadership
19:56: Crisis of Career
24:57: Questioning the Leadership and structure
29:42: A Beautiful New Community
35:07: A Fresh Start in Ministry
40:37: Existential Crisis of a Creative Leader’s Heart
46:06: Church Franchising
51:55: Putting the “Ass” in “P-ass-tor”
57:13: Losing Community Again
1:02:52 Commodifying Creativity
1:08:03 Conclusions

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