For the last ten years, Jonathan Acuff has written advertising for clients ranging from the Home Depot to Chick-fil-A. In addition to his many day jobs, he also writes a blog called www.stuffchristianslike.net. He and his wife live with their two daughters outside of Atlanta, Georgia.
After creating his answer to the blog 'Stuff White People Like,'
Christian blogger Acuff saw his satirical Web site become a popular
Internet destination. His best essays, accompanied by childlike
illustrations, comprise this book, which maintains the structure of
his short posts. From sexual purity to crock pots to clapping
during worship, Acuff uses a standup comedy style to laugh with
Christians at their private conventions. Readers will learn the
unspoken rules of Christian living, including the (in)appropriate
use of God's name to avoid a speeding ticket and obligations to
'think about going into full-time ministry at least once every
three years.' Entries such as the diagram of a metrosexual worship
leader mimic the truth-telling wit of the Web site
ChurchMarketingSucks.com and will appeal most to young Christian
hipsters. Sarcasm masks a deeper layer of commentary that exposes
hypocrisies and faith flaws, and readers may want to amend these
behaviors to avoid becoming the subject of Acuff's newest jokes on
his blog. Acuff's ability to point out unbecoming idiosyncrasies
while inducing a knee slap is stuff readers will like. (Apr.)
*Publishers Weekly*
Yes, the popular blog-turned-paperback Stuff Christians Like is a
direct rip-off of the even more popular blog-turned-paperback Stuff
White People Like. And yes, one of the things Christians like is
making their own versions of “secular” intellectual property.
Acuff’s is not the first book of insider evangelical observational
humor (see Patricia Klein, Joel Kilpatrick, Matthew Paul Turner),
but his background as a trend hunter at an advertising company
makes it sharper than most. It’s also far more accurate sociology
than all the sour-faced “explaining evangelicalism” books that came
out after Bush’s reelection.
*Christianity Today*
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