{"id":4487,"date":"2011-11-08T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2011-11-08T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:25:44","slug":"hipster-church-no-longer-a-meme-its-now-a-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2011\/11\/hipster-church-no-longer-a-meme-its-now-a-real-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hipster Church’ – No Longer A Meme, It’s Now A Real Thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Yeah, we can rhyme in our headlines.<\/p>\n

Boom! We just did it again.<\/p>\n

Jay-Z, \u00a0where\u2019s our record deal?!<\/p>\n

Anyway, it looks like somebody took Brett McCracken\u2019s book Hipster Christianity<\/a><\/em>\"\"\u00a0pretty seriously. Hipster Church is literally this church\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

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You can visit the church\u2019s website here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the pastor\u2026.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s their story\u2026.<\/p>\n

Finally, A Hipster Church For Hipster Christians
\nGothamist.com<\/em><\/h1>\n

Look at that old church, getting hip to the know! After\u00a0forgiving\u00a0John Lennon a few years back, organized religion today made another attempt to be cool, this time at the hands of a 37-year-old self-described \u201chipster\u201d reverend who founded something called the Hipster Church, which is a story we are absolutely not making up.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rev. Gage Jung is the head of a new group of worshippers at his Hipster Church in Flushing. \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to make a church like the one your parents went to. We\u2019re trying to make a church for our generation,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Jung in an interview. What that means, according to the\u00a0Daily News\u00a0article, is services to the sounds of a religiously-inclined indie band, with a Bible iPhone app, and \u201can informal mingling where participants listen to indie rockers like MGMT and\u00a0Arcade Fire.<\/strong>\u201d Gage has currently only recruited about 32 people (how is it possible there aren\u2019t hundreds of other hipster Christians out there?!) but hopes to have a walloping 100 by this fall.<\/em><\/p>\n

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*If this church\u2019s name offends your hipster sensibilities, then have now fear. Apparently, there\u2019s a rival hipster church<\/a>\u00a0in the New York area which is even more hipster because they didn\u2019t make the obvious faux pas of using \u201chipster\u201d in the church\u2019s name. It\u2019s called Resurrection Presbyterian Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 Yeah, we can rhyme in our headlines. Boom! We just did it again. Jay-Z, \u00a0where\u2019s our record deal?! Anyway, it looks like somebody took Brett McCracken\u2019s book Hipster Christianity\u00a0pretty seriously. Hipster Church is literally this church\u2019s name. You can visit the church\u2019s website here. Here\u2019s the pastor\u2026. And here\u2019s their story\u2026. Finally, A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n'Hipster Church' - No Longer A Meme, It's Now A Real Thing!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    Yeah, we can rhyme in our headlines. Boom! We just did it again. Jay-Z, \u00a0where's our record deal?! 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