10 years ago: Tormenting the Mustard Seed

October 28, 2003, here on slacktivist: Tormenting the Mustard Seed

For those of you new to the game, it’s quite simple:

1. Call up your local evangelical book store (“The Mustard Seed” is a regional chain in these parts, in your area it may be called the “Family Christian Book Center,” or “The Fisherman’s Net” or some such thing).

2. Ask them if they have a copy of Brideshead Revisited in stock.

3. When they say No — and they will say No — say, “But I thought this was a Christian book store?”

Snarky, juvenile and a bit mean-spirited, yes, but you can’t hope to change a subculture without making it aware that it is a subculture.