Stuff Christian Culture Likes

Those of you from an Evangelical background will wince with recognition at this very perceptive site dedicated to the foibles, shibboleths, code words, and cultural identifiers of Real[TM] Christian culture as understood among American Evangelicals c. 2007-2013. The author is a preacher’s kid who has been around the block and represents where Emergents are pretty [...]

A reader writes…

I read your blog faithfully and appreciate your insights and humor, though I haven’t commented since you’ve moved to Patheos. I used to participate in the religion forum at Free Republic until I realized it’s the Mos Eisely of Protestantism. Catholic bashing has been an enduring feature of the place since its beginning, and they’ve [...]

Evangelicals Often Rediscover Catholic Teachings

Some time back I wrote a little piece called “Discovering Wales” in which I noted that, because Evangelicals are serious about discipleship and oriented toward truth, they tend to keep stumbling upon Catholic doctrines, since those doctrines are, in fact, a map of reality.  Sez I: I have thought more than once that it might [...]