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#213 Forbidding your husband to have female friends
Married men in Christian culture commonly experience wifely pressure to lose their female friends. Many married men outside of Christian culture feel the same pressure for the same reasons, but with...
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#214 The Dove Awards
If a Christian tree wins a Dove Award in the forest and only Christian trees are there to hear it, did it make a sound?The Dove Awards are Christian culture’s version of the Grammys. Grammy Awards are...
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#215 Not secular humanism
Humanism is the most fearsome philosophy known to Christian culture. The only thing more frightening than humanism is secular humanism. It is right up there with socialism and voodoo. Secular humanists...
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#216 Things that edify
Christian culture wants to edify and be edified. Edification is mentioned several times in the New Testament, basically saying we should do stuff that edifies ourselves and each other. It’s a lovely...
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#217 The Ungame
The Ungame is a non-competitive non-game that enjoys rabid popularity in Christian culture. It exists solely to spark conversation, permits no losing, and is basically a G-rated version of "Have you...
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#218 Michele Bachmann
Christian culture is so excited about Michele Bachmann. A self-proclaimed constitutional conservative and founder of the House’s Tea Party caucus, her presidential candidacy nomination has given them...
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#219 The word "hubby"
"Hubby" isn’t often said by neurosurgeons, rocket scientists or most self-respecting intellectuals, but within Christian culture you hear it all the time. It runs rampant in Young Marrieds ministries,...
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#220 Dave Ramsey
Dave Ramsey is the financial guru of Christian culture. He is to American evangelicals what Oprah is to the untoward penurious masses who lean to her, begging her folksy utile wisdom, except Dave is...
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#221 Saying "I'd like to invite you to..."
"I’d like to invite you to" is a standard phrase in Christian culture. It frequently surfaces during the pre-sermon announcements or the post-sermon wrap-up, and it is a staple in the vernacular of...
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#222 Steve Jobs
Photoshopped or not? It seems like something that would actually happen.Answer upside down at the bottom of the page. Kidding. It's photoshopped.With the passing of Steve Jobs an e-tsunami of...
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#223 Scheduling sex
Who does this? Well, it’s a common practice among married evangelicals and is usually performed at the behest of the pastor who did their premarital or crisis counseling.It’s even common to even hear...
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my religion podcast with david bazan from pedro the lion
Non-blog-post post: Last week I was on a special religion episode of the Grapes of Rad podcast with David Bazan. He was my Bible study leader ten years ago and isn't a Christian anymore, and we talked...
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#224 Saying "I'm praying for you"
This is one of Christian culture's very favorite things to say. Whether they actually will pray or not is anyone's guess, but it seems important somehow that you believe they will. Versatile and...
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#225 The word "petting"
Nobody ever says this word unless they're talking about a petting zoo, and then it's used as a participle and is G-rated. Christian culture are the only ones who use it as a verb in a PG-13/NC-17 way...
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#226 Giving up Facebook for Lent
In recent years a large part of Christian culture has made a dogleg towards the reformed tradition. This is particularly common among Christians who were raised evangelical. (The traditional...
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#227 Saying "Love the sinner, hate the sin"
Christian culture likes to say that they "love the sinner but hate the sin." They put it on bumper stickers and memes and have no problem saying it out loud to the sinners in question. Love the sinner....
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#228 Not taking God's name in vain
Evangelical Christian culture has a specific idea of what the third commandment entails and goddammit, they won’t hear anything else.As a participant in western Christianity you are taught that this...
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#229 Sufjan Stevens
Christian culture are suckers for a reworked hymn and a banjo and as such they cannot get enough Sufjan. Between his spiritual allusions, mandolin usage, meaningfulcore vibe and altbro stage costumes,...
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#230 Worship leader conferences
Christian culture absolutely loves a conference. It's such a popular enterprise that there is now a conference for every facet of evangelical life, and the bigger the conference, the more likely that...
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#231 Sending conservative propaganda to their liberal children
Political proselytizing from parent to child is a time-honored tradition made even easier and more passive-aggressive since the advent of email. The wayward and disillusioned child of conservative...
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#232 Covert misogyny
For as inclusive and LGBTQ-friendly the progressive Church likes to imagine itself, there are still deep, linty pockets of gender bias and old habits that haven’t been broken. And how could they be, if...
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#233 Giving Kiosks
With the way tithing has been cramping our cyberactive lifestyles, we had to know we’d live to see the Giving Kiosk. Forged by Mother Necessity/megachurch-era capitalism, these glowing monoliths of...
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#234 Daddy-Daughter Dates
Christian culture is way into daddy-daughter dates. Yes. They're exactly what they sound like. To their credit, evangelicals have recognized that absentee dads are more or less a societal menace and...
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#211 Taking pictures with poor foreign children during missions trips
Christian culture’s preoccupation with third-world countries has fostered many a missions trip. Homelessness and hunger are right under everyone’s nose but the social dichotomy in North America allows...
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#212 Growing Kids God’s Way aka Babywise
96% of parents in Christian culture own a copy of Growing Kids God’s Way by Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo. The alternate version, On Becoming Babywise, is the secular edition, written by the same people...
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