• Mike Huckabee describes Masada as “a God-made fortress.” That confusion — the inability to tell the difference between God and King Herod — explains much of Huckabee’s ideology.
• It’s not surprising that Christian-brand media is mainly watched/read/listened to by Christian-brand audiences. The survey was conducted by the Southern Baptist affiliated LifeWay, which puts a positive spin on it, suggesting it shows one third of the audience for “Christian” media industry is “unchurched.”
Christianity Today provides an even more positive and spinnier spin by describing this media consumption as one-third “evangelism” and two-thirds “discipleship.” That’s a bit optimistic, considering we’re talking about the kind of “Christian” media peddled by the National Religious Broadcasters and the CBA (those letters once stood for “Christian Booksellers Association,” but the group now fesses up and just calls itself the “Association for Christian Retail”). It’s hard to see how 90 percent of that stuff could be considered credible for either evangelism or discipleship.
To be fair, of course, Sturgeon’s Law reminds us that 90 percent of everything is crud.
• Completely unrelated: “America’s Largest Christian Bookstore Chain Files for Bankruptcy.” They’re not planning on closing any stores, though, so this shouldn’t affect the nation’s vital supply of Amish romance novels.
• Speaking of book sales: The Anti-Christ Handbook, Vol. 1 has now sold 191 copies — just 475 more to reach my goal!
• Surprised not to find “sensible shoes” in this list: “Code Words for Lesbianism in Classic Films.”
• “Bush Derangement Syndrome sought extraordinary explanations for extraordinary events; Obama Derangement Syndrome seeks extraordinary explanations for an ordinary presidency.”
• “Historian” David Barton recounts his personal history as a record-setting NCAA basketball player. This appears to be every bit as reliable as everything else Barton says.
• “Save the Bros.” Well played, Organic Valley. Well played.
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