In the end, some non-Christian artists left Big Idea because it was “too much like a church.” Some Christian artists left because it was “not enough like a church.” My mission statement, intentionally vague to keep cynical journalists from writing us off as radical right wackos, proved equally adept at allowing employees to draw various, often contradictory conclusions about what it actually meant. “Is Big Idea a Christian ministry?” Ask twelve different employees and get twelve different answers. Yes. No. Sort of. What do you mean by “ministry”? Even I wasn’t entirely sure. I knew my life was
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