Sherry laughs at the sales flyer for large Christian bookstore. “For only five dollars you can get a copy of the workout DVD, Tae Bo: The Strength Within in which ‘Christian fitness guru BB encourages reaching out to God when another set of roundhouse kicks seems impossible.'”
And Jared is depressed when a Christian store clerk is unfamiliar with C.S. Lewis.
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C.S. Lewis?
Wasn’t he a third round pick for the Vikings back in ’98?
No, that was Sinclair Lewis.
Kicking has often been a part of my devotional life, but it’s usually meant a kick in the pants from God.
Is that tape so you can practice kicking against the goads, like Saul did?
Ah…Sinclair Lewis! That’s right, he and Dwight Clark got themselves sent out West (and eventually down to the minors).
Ask the kid in the bookstore if he’s ever heard of Lewis and Clark and you’ll probably get the same look.
My most depressing incident in a Christian bookstore came when I found a bargain copy of Jonathan Edwards’ Religious Affections. It was nicely typeset. It was attractively bound. Then as I paged through it I also realized I was also gender neutral. Yes, some editor had not only removed all of the “thee” and “thou” but replaced the inclusive “he” with “they” or “he and she.” I mean, this is Edwards for crying out loud! You want to make him politically correct?!
That’s incredible, Loren. I’m having difficulty wrapping my mind around that. I assume the publisher got the idea that Edwards wrote material that would sell (but of course it must be modernized), though I have heard that Edwards is big in Pentecostal circles, probably due to selected quotations from him, not a full-orbed understanding. Pentecostals aren’t generally Calvinist, are they?
I thought CS Lewis was Chuck Norris’ pen name while writing about roundhouse kicking in Narnia.
Jonathan Edwards. They was a good person.