The Pastor Who Kimye and Bieber Made Famous

I've been reporting on American religion for years. I've been to megachurches and tiny chapels and compounds and covens and strange temples. I've met believers who say Christ was a cowboy and believers who think Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was divine revelation; strippers who consider their nakedness a testimony and soldiers who etched Scripture onto their rifles. I have seen the silly and the sublime. And what always make me marvel are the layers of stories beneath even the glossiest surface, followers who bring to their faith depths averred by even the most callow leaders. Maybe that's so at Vous, too. But never before Vous had I encountered a church that seemed so completely empty.