The Recovering Choir Director

*But more important, what were Jesus’ fitness secrets? If you were one of the growing millions of Americans living in the multimillion-dollar Christian alternaculture—in which everything in mainstream culture gets cloned and then bleached of “sinful” content—you’d know.

So begins a September 2002 article by Walter Kirn of Gentleman’s Quarterly on mass-marketed Christianity™.

[Via Rosa Mystica, whose comments echo my point of view on the matter.]

Some of the topics covered by Kirn are also touched by John Allen in his August 22 Word from Rome.

[Via Summa Contra Mundum.]