Growing up evangelical: A sacred-secular chronology
Raise your hand if you grew up evangelical. Does anyone remember those CCM store displays attempting to lure customers with comparisons like, "If you like Sting, you might like Steven Curtis Chapman" or "If you like Jewel, you might like Rebecca St. James"?Among the peculiar realities of growing up evangelical was navigating the strange dichotomy of "Christian vs. secular" spheres of product consumption, exemplified most vividly in the realms of commercial music and book distribution.
Book Review: Evolving in Monkey Town
Rachel Held Evans and I share a lot in common. We’re both 29-year-olds who were raised in evangelical homes and attended small Christian colleges from 1999 to 2003. We’ve both experienced our fair share of disillusionment with various aspects of American evangelicalism and have lived to blog about it.
End Times Gloom and Doom: A Historical Reality Check
I'm told that if you translate "Prince Charles of Wales" into Hebrew and calculate the symbols using an ancient Jewish number system, it adds up to 666. Sound the alarm!
One of my least favorite aspects of being an American evangelical Christian is getting lumped together with peddlers of apocalyptic speculation and escapism of the Left Behind variety.