2 Years of Stuff Christians Like
Tomorrow marks two straight years of Stuff Christians Like. It started because I always thought it was weird the way we put a God spin on popular secular ideas. Got Milk becomes Got God, Adidas becomes Add Jesus etc. I thought it would be fun to talk about that situation by committing that situation by copying the concept between Christian Lander’s site, Stuff White People Like.
I had 50 other websites registered and thought this would be one more dumb idea I wrote about for 2 weeks and got bored with. But for reasons beyond the singularity of my unibrow, the site grew and it’s two years later. I asked God about a year ago if it would be crazy to try to tell a million people about him. It seemed kind of far fetched and silly. But having reached 1.1 million readers these last two years I am coming to grips with the idea that I tend to undersize the guy who breathed the Grand Canyon. I digress.
To celebrate the two years I thought it would be fun to do two things:
1. Give you the coolest thing I’ve seen all year.
2. Create a list of my 7 favorite Stuff Christians Like posts.
What’s that thing? The BookBook.
It’s a classic book turned into a macbook case. It’s cool, I’ve never seen one in real life and I’d love to give you one. If you don’t have a macbook or macbook pro and you win, you can have an iPod shuffle instead. Your choice.
Simply leave a comment, any comment at all on this post by the end of Sunday night, March 21 and you’ll be entered.
And the list?
These are my 7 favorite Stuff Christians Like posts and the reasons why. If you haven’t read them yet, take a look:
This one became the cover of the book, was written about in a Chicago Tribune article and earned me more hate than the staff of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air must have felt for the original lady that played the mom.
2. #62. Being slightly less nice than Mormons.
I included this one in the list because this is one of the first posts where I realized the site could be a ministry. Part of the reason I believed that is a comment someone left. Here’s an excerpt of what they said: No offense to anyone reading this, but if I weren’t an atheist, I’d strive to be this kind of Christian.
3. #512. Thinking you’re naked.
This one is about grace and as a guy who has a hard time getting his hands around that, this is one I appreciate.
4. #269. Metrosexual Worship Leaders
This one was fun to write and the drawing that Wes Molebash did pushed it over the edge. Then Chris Tomlin autographed an unnecessary scarf. Long live metrosexual worship leaders.
5. #159. The “pray you if you feel led” prayer.
This was one of the first posts about prayer and it showed me how enjoyable it could be to write about this subject.
6. #550. Surviving church as a single.
As a married guy, sometimes I feel like I write too many posts about marriage. This was my shout out to all my single friends.
7. What if?
This is the post that started the Vietnam kindergarten project. No matter what else happens with the blog, we raised $60,000 to build two kindergartens halfway around the world. Easy pick for this list.
