G13, a Christian person from Beverley, Mass., wrote up a nice post about my book. Here’s what he likes:

the most compelling characteristic of the story is beaujon’s deep desire to understand evangelical culture and his overwhelming empathy concerning the intentions and aims of the wide variety of evangelicals (from jay bakker to dave bazan) that he encounters along the way. near the end of the book, i was startled by beaujon’s compassion for a culture that is not his own and challenged to be more charitable towards a culture that, like it or not, is my own.

And here’s what he doesn’t:

his indifference towards americana music in general and bill mallonee in particular, the relatively unengaging profile on rock for life and the pro-life movement and the failure to mention – at any single point – the influence that progressive, christocentric, iconoclastic influence rich mullins levied upon contemporary christian music.

I liked the Rock for Life profile, but otherwise, I plead guilty. I think the Rich Mullins story is very interesting (especially since there’s an aspect of it that will likely make many evangelical Christians very uncomfortable), and I hope to look into it more someday.

Americana music I will never find interesting.

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