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What are your political views? 

That’s a big question which is basically answered in detail on the blog itself.  However here’s a few principles we hold. 

• Christians should not be fully republicans or democrats.  Because biblical values are spread across both parties and christians MUST speak to the full spectrum of what God desires christians should be the ultimate swing vote.  We should influence both political parties with biblical values not just automatically belong to one because it holds two or three important values.  One way to understand this is Tim Keller’s principle of the gospel.  The gospel is a sphere- three dimensional.  Politics is a circle.  What portion of a sphere can be contained in a circle?  Well some but only a slice.  Liberalism and conservatism have elements of the truth in them but neither is sufficient to contain a biblical worldview.  
• Everyone’s entitled to their own opinions but no one is entitled to their own facts.  It is incredibly distressing to see more and more politics being conducted with the assumption that facts do not matter.  We are especially concerned when this is perpetrated by christians and believed by christians. 

Are you making fun of Christians in your “Stuff Christians Like”   

1. Maybe.  A and I are both Christians.  We love Jesus and the church.  I (M) am a pastor.  There are a few reasons we write the Stuff Christians Like posts.  They’re funny. The church has created it’s own subculture which is often bizarre, perplexing, irrelevant, weird, and even alienating to non-christians and christians who don’t or can’t “fit-in.”  We like to poke fun at that subculture in hopes that Christians become aware of it and do something to change it. 
2.  Worse than the church creating its own subculture, it sometimes measures your sanctification by your assimilation into that subculture instead of say, love and obedience to Christ.  This we hate.  Jesus hates it too.  Read Matthew 23.  Mockery is the least of what this deserves.
3. They’re funny. 
4. Satire and humor open paths for dialogue and insight which simple statements of facts and ideas don’t allow.  

Did you copy Stuff Christians Like from the Blog “Stuff White People Like.”

Yes, not the content but the idea.  It’s a hilarious blog.

Do your views reflect the views of your church?

Yes, the people in my church think if, when and what I tell them to.  

Now for the real answer.  Obviously no.  How can hundreds of people agree with anyone?  If you ask 10 christians anything they’ll give you 11.  What we do have at our church is the goal of studying Scripture and trying to obey it as we engage with the issues of our world.  That’s also the goal of this blog.

Are you against all the things in Stuff Christians Like?

Of course not.  I’m not against the Bible, Casseroles or Cantatas.  My church does some of that stuff.  I just want folks to be aware that it’s part of a subculture that can be weird to “outsiders.”

I read a comment on your blog that I really disagreed with, why don’t you delete it?

We allow comments on our blog, to be largely unedited because we believe people learn well through discussion.  There are plenty of venues in Christianity where there is a lot of censorship and people are not encouraged to ask questions, and there is not many where the opposite is true.  We believe in providing space where people can learn through dialogue in a way that is non-confrontational or less structured.  If hard questions are not asked, they are not answered.

Do you agree with all of the comments written on your blog?

No, absolutely not, but we do allow most comments for the sake of honesty & discussion.  We will edit for profanity, hate speech or links to porn.