participants there including that band's saxophonist, Leanor "Jeff the Girl" Ortega Till. Artist Naomi Haverland, a representational artist who works in large scale acrylic, oil, and chalk images, was also a self-described part of the congregation, as of April 2014. Impact In addition to its local impact, and its expansion into a network of churches, SOTEC has inspired the founding of other congregations related in style and temperament, for instance The Refuse of Colorado Springs, Colorado, that uses the same biblical verse as its theme, and which was led by Dave Weatherby as of August 2006. In 2006, Scott Bader-Saye, writing in a special issue on "The Emerging Church"" for the International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church argued that the seeming radical aspects of SOTEC, and the "innovation" involved in its appeal to fringe elements of society (in this century), were "not fundamentally different from traditional evangelicalism." Bill Bishop, an Austin American-Statesman reporter, presented a political science effort on the demographics of the political and cultural divisions in America, published as The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart. In it he refers to SOTEC as one of several churches comparable to one on which Bishop focused on in his study—Bluers, in Minneapolis, Minnesota—and to this set as distinctive from mega-churches that characterize the detrimental "Balkanization" and clustering of viewpoints, his central thesis. John Micklethwait and Adiran Woolridge, respectively, the editor in chief and Washington bureau chief of The Economist, take note of SOTEC in their book God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the World (2009), and in comments related to that book use it as a case in point for a broad conclusion: "The real strength of religious America lies in its diversity. There are more than 200 religious traditions in America, with 20 different sorts of Baptists alone. Religious America is remarkably good at segmenting its customer base: There are services for bikers, gays and dropouts (the Scum of the Earth Church in Denver)." Critiques Paleoconservative political commentator Pat Buchanan, writing in Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? (2011), in contrast to the earlier Micklethwait and Woolridge argument, mentions SOTEC and questions the tailoring of services to specific populations, asking, "Is this a manifestation of the 'real strength' of Christianity, or does it instead, sound like disintegration, the loss of the unity