A Solution I Had Not Considered

Perhaps, Carl, this will work as a solution to all this celebrity pastor business.  Here’s a comment from a reader at the blog:

All this talk about British versus American.
Take the perfect compromise – become Canadian. No celebrities here. When
Canadians become famous it is because they have gone off to the US. Or they
went there first and then made a name for themselves. This is true of
theologians too of course with the one exception of that Brit who became
Canadian – my hero – Dr. Packer. Don’t you think becoming Canadian would solve
all this nonsense about celebrity? No one cares who we are or what we write as
long as we are writing and speaking on this side of the border. Give us Carson
and Haykin back. In five years no one will remember them. You can keep
Blackaby. And please keep Bentley. So – got a problem with your cult of
personality? Give your all stars a lengthy sabbatical up here – starting in
February, without a computer. That’ll cool his jets.