The Problem with Being Good

Addiction isn’t always loud. Sometimes it looks like obedience. Sometimes it looks like being ‘nice.’ Sometimes it looks like trying really, really hard to be good.” Something almost everyone recognizes but rarely confesses: Most of us don’t think of ourselves as addicted people. We think addicts are reckless, immoral, out of control. But there is a socially acceptable addiction that thrives in churches—and it’s rewarded, praised, and even spiritualized.