Do you read like a Christian hipster? This month Christianity Today published an excerpt from the new book, Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide by Brett McCracken–complete with a reading list.
The article identified and critiqued Christian hipsters, riffing off a popular mainstream book title with a “Stuff Christian Hipsters Like” reading list. The list included some of this GalleyCat editor’s favorite writers: C. S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, and Marilynne Robinson.
Book Bench editor Macy Halford explored the feature: “The trouble McCracken has with Christian hipsters is the same trouble everyone everywhere has with hipsters, which is that they often seem to lack authenticity. But it’s worse with Christian hipsters, because they embrace secular mores that are antithetical to the Christian lifestyle (cigarettes, bourbon, hookah, tattoos, beards, cursing, R-rated movies, vintage choral music), thus compromising the very essence of their religion.”