Interesting
Walter Kirn "chose to examine the evangelical Christian subculture from the perspective of an outsider. For seven days Kirn immersed himself in the evangelical lifestyle. He listened only to music by Christian artists, watched only Christian videos, and even began each day with a "holy workout" inspired by a Christian book." ~ Nancy Beach, An Hour on Sunday
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"[Evangelical Christianity] is mall Christianity. It's been malled. It's the upshot of some decision that to compete with them--to compete with 'N Sync and Friends and Stephen King and Matt and Katie and Abercrombie and Fitch and Jackie Chan and AOL and Sesame Street--the faithful should turn from their centuries-old tradition of fashioning transcendent art and literature and passionate folk forms such as gospel music... and instead head down to Tower or Blockbuster and check out what's selling, then try to rip it off, on a budget if possible and by employing artists who are either so devout or so plain desperate that they'll work for scale. What makes the stuff so half-assed, so thin, so weak and cumulatively so demoralizing... has nothing to do with faith. The problem is lack of faith."
~ Walter Kirn, novelist and GQ's literary editor