Willow Creek became a new model of American religion, which replaced stained glass, hymns and robed clergy with pastors in jeans backed by bands, video screens and smoke machines.
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What happens when the church of the future gets old?
(RNS) — In the mid-1970s, a group of high schoolers and their former youth pastor started a church in a movie theater and named it Willow Creek. American religion hasn’t been the same since. The…