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This week is "Know Your Christian Hipster History" week... Throughout the week, if you re-post a FB item from Hipster Christianity (tag Hipster Christianity in your post) or tweet a link to a Hipster Christianity post (tag @brettmccracken on Twitter), you'll be entered in a drawing for a free autographed copy of the book. 5 books will be given away on Friday!

Still not convinced of and/or have the time for twitter, so hope this post places me in the running ;-) 

More seriously, a few more thoughts on Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide (Brett McCraken. Baker Books. 2010), http://www.hipsterchristianity.com/about.php to add to What's your Christian Hipster Quotient?  Note:  As with the first post, the material is an adaption of a BIC-TALK post.  This post touches upon how Hipster Christianity overlaps with fashion/looks and whether the whole thing is just a joke.  As you may guess, concerns stemming from taking the quiz, http://www.hipsterchristianity.com/quiz.php ;-)

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Yes, in some ways Hipster Christianity is a joke or at least a concept which deserves a ;-)  Below's part of the author profile, http://www.hipsterchristianity.com/about.php, which helpfully shares the genesis of the book.

Yes, there are some "looks" which have become more acceptable to "cool Christians" in Evangelical circles, e.g., http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10278&id=112719812101235&ref=mf, http://www.hipsterchristianity.com/anatomy.php, but I don't think it's about 'the look' as much as 'Evangelicalism's younger generation's' journey, attitude, issues, and questions in relationship to the mid-to-late-20th Century/21st Century Evangelical subculture.  I think that the issues are probably different for those born-and-raised in the Evangelical subculture versus those who entered in as 'adults'

[e.g., Some such as myself have a stronger critique of the larger American culture which we left (e.g., "American Dream," "Amusing Ourselves to Death," "Consumerism," "Cultural Relativism"/Tolerance, "The End of Education," lack of "Creation Care," etc.) and don't quite 'understand' a lot of Evangelical subculture (the pieces of 20th Century and 21st Century wider Evangelicalism with which we didn't interact with as children and have concerns regarding its purpose/direction).  The point is to embrace, be continually present in/transformed by, and share the salt, light, and leaven of Christ to the glory of God through all of one's person as a member of the people of God directed by the Word and Spirit of God]. 

As I've been rooting around the author's blog, http://stillsearching.wordpress.com/, I found a number of posts to help frame Brett McCracken's perspective.