Christian college students’ universal fascination with Settlers of Catan. An excerpt:
Only days before, we’d had a spirited disagreement prompted by the popularity of the music of both Sufjan Stevens and Conor Oberst, and George’s distaste for both. Soon, however, the argument came to include a wide range of artists, musicians, authors, activities and, of course, books. The Brothers K, the novel by David James Duncan, being one of these contentious items. George’s thesis was as follows: Christians in their 20s and 30s have predictable tastes, while at the same time believing that they alone have stumbled upon something unique in secular culture, something that is not stereotypically “Christian.”