Here’s a rule of thumb: if The New York Times is praising you, you’re doing something wrong.
On March 8, the Times ran an article by Tara Isabella Burton called “Christianity Gets Weird.” It’s about an Extremely Online phenomenon called—yes—“Weird Christianity.”
According to Ms. Burton, what Weird Christians (like herself) “have in common is that we see a return to old-school forms of worship as a way of escaping from the crisis of modernity and the liberal-capitalist faith in individualism.” Weird Christians “reject as overly accommodationist those churches, primarily mainline Protestant denominations,” which have “watered down the stranger and more supernatural elements of the faith,” such as “miracles” and “the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
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