BONUS Episode: The REAL War on Christmas

It's the REAL war on Christmas! It's THE real war on Christmas! It's the real WAR on Christmas! It's the real war on CHRISTMAS! You get what I'm saying? This is a talk I gave for the the Tent Talks podcast Patreon subscribers, but I'm offering it you here for free as a way of enticing you to go and listen to Tent Talks. There's a lot of great conversations on that podcast. For instance, coming up in 2022 our first episode is with a former U.S. presidential candidate. I wonder who it will be? To be sure, their name certainly doesn't rhyme with Schmillary Macklinton!  If you're interested in part one of this talk about resting and debauchery at Christmastime, please see the Tent Talks podcast.

Also, I've released a new Christmas song for the end of 2021. It's my electronic version of "What Child Is This?" Go have yourself an Xmas dance party! You can find my older Christmas album here. Also, here is last year's Christmas episode! (You're welcome!)

Oh hey, did you know I wrote a book about Christmas! It's all about the Christmas Culture Wars! And by the end of it, I've certainly won them. All of them. I am the victor. Here are all the places displaying the spoils of my victory:

Amazon
Christian Book Distributors
Wipf and Stock
Barnes and Noble
Google Play
Faithlife
Cokesbury
Lagron Miller (Roman Catholic book, gift, and vestment store in Peoria, Illinois)
Thrift Books

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You can stream the new song directly here:

PostConsumer Culture Club #4—The Week of September 20-September 26

PostConsumer Culture Club: A list of everything we at PostConsumer Reports have been digesting this week, with brief commentary. Hopefully, we can culture something good in you. Happy PostConsuming!

Here is what we watched the week of September 20 through September 26.

PostConsumer Culture Club #3—The Week of September 13-September 19

PostConsumer Culture Club: A list of everything we at PostConsumer Reports have been digesting this week, with brief commentary. Hopefully, we can culture something good in you. Happy PostConsuming!

Here is what we watched the week of September 13 through September 19.

PostConsumer Culture Club #2—The Week of September 6-September 12

PostConsumer Culture Club: A list of everything we at PostConsumer Reports have been digesting this week, with brief commentary. Hopefully, we can culture something good in you. Happy PostConsuming!

Here is what we watched the week of September 6 through September 12.

TV: Late Show With Stephen Colbert
I made a plan to watch every night of the first week of Stephen Colbert's turn at the Late Show helm. So far I have not missed a show yet and so far I am really enjoying myself. I posted a longer review, which you can read here: The First Week of Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

PostConsumer Culture Club #1—The Week of August 30-September 5

I'm not exactly sure what the next year will look like for me.

There is the potential I could start writing a book (Lord, open that door), I have a number of articles on worship music already written that I am going to share starting in November (whoops, I just shared one a couple of days ago), and I would really like to flex my interviewing skills and do more podcasting (I have lots of ideas...). I am also in the (slow) process of being ordained as an Anglican Priest. And so I am going to attempt putting out a weekly article that is simple for me to write but hopefully fun and informative for everyone else. I am calling it "PostConsumer Culture Club".

Here's the description:
PostConsumer Culture Club: A list of everything we at PostConsumer Reports have been digesting this week, with brief commentary. Hopefully, we can culture something good in you. Happy PostConsuming!

True Love Waits: A Woman's Perspective

I just put up an article about sexual purity, abstinence, purity culture, and True Love Waits Weekends: "True Love Waits: What My Youth Pastor Did Right"

It was my personal views on growing up in that culture, how it shaped me and my views on sex. And it was mostly positive.

I know full well it is not the whole story, which I why I put out a question to my women Facebook friends:

During the True Love Waits weekends or at other times when girls were getting taught by themselves (perhaps only by ---the youth pastor's wife), or another female leader) were you ever made to feel as if sex itself was dirty or to feel guilty about your body and how boys will lust over it. Note, I'm not asking if girls were called to sexual purity or abstinence or to dress modestly, but if instead sex itself was looked down on or guilt was associated with sex.

True Love Waits: What My Youth Pastor Did Right

Do you feel that?

We are heading towards the middle of February and that means love is in the air.

So I bet you have guessed already what this article is about. That's right!:

Abstinence, waiting until marriage, True Love Waits, kissing dating goodbye, purity rings, purity balls, purity itself, and of course my exact specifications of how far is too far! 

I guess you could say I am more of the 50 Shades of White Hot Holy Purity variety. 

The Uncomfortable Ethnic Envy of White Amnesiacs

So, I am sitting here watching an interview with Topol, the iconic and eternal star of Fiddler on the Roof and I realize I am incredibly jealous of this man.

Slowing Church Down in a McDonald's Culture?: A Review of Slow Church

"Slow Church takes the long view, examining all thought and culture, every ideology and assumption, all action and reaction by the messianic light of the last day." (Slow Church pg. 24)