The annoyingly cloying Ty Pennington, host of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” was arrested over the weekend, on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Everyone makes mistakes, of course, but there is something so phony and contrived about this show that I can’t say that I’m surprised. Asking people to tell their sob stories for an excessive new home, when their families or communities have been unable or unwilling to help, strikes me as undignified.
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
