From Katie Couric to the Wall Street Journal, the phenomenon of the "hipster Christian" is a hot topic. Or, whatever. The heart of the matter, says Brett McCracken, is "whether or not Christianity can ...
When volunteers at Venue Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, arrived at their pastor’s house last November, they were hoping to raise his spirits with a surprise visit. Instead they got a shock: Pastor ...
Angie Boudreaux grew up in her grandmother’s conservative Southern Baptist church an odd child who loved going every week just to hear the preacher preach. Eventually, she became a Sunday school ...
Refuting a bogus trend piece (cc: Jack Shafer) like today’s “Holy hipsters flock to church,” from the New York Post, is like dunking on a 6-foot basketball hoop. It’s too easy to be satisfying, but it ...
If you’ve seen a young adult wearing skinny jeans while texting wildly on an iPhone and smoking a Parliament cigarette, you’ve spotted a hipster. If you’ve seen cloisters of those same young adults ...