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Stuff Christian Hipsters Like

A sidebar to CT's cover story on 'Hipster Faith.'

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This piece is a sidebar to Christianity Today's cover story on "Hipster Faith."

Books by these Authors

C. S. Lewis, Walker Percy, Dorothy Sayers, Terry Eagleton, Donald Miller, Evelyn Underhill, Anne Lamott, George MacDonald, Shakespeare, Plato, Augustine, Annie Dillard, Martin Buber, Wendell Berry, Tim Keller, N. T. Wright, Fyodor Dostoevsky, A. W. Tozer, Flannery O'Connor, Jacques Ellul, Thomas Merton, Shusaku Endo, Lauren Winner, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Shane Claiborne, Henri Nouwen, Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, Dallas Willard, John Steinbeck, Jim Wallis, William Faulkner, Eugene Peterson, Thomas à Kempis, Emily Dickinson, Marilynne Robinson

Movies by these Directors

Wim Wenders, Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze, The Coen Brothers, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Carl Dreyer, Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Terrence Malick, Martin Scorsese, Krzysztof Kiesślowski, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jane Campion, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas, Anderson David Gordon Green, Gus Van Sant, Ingma Bergman,Jia Zhangke, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Alfonso Cuarón

Music by these Artists

Sufjan Stevens, Pedro the Lion, Radiohead, Coldplay, Damien Jurado, Bob Dylan, The National, My Brightest Diamond,Rosie Thomas, Denison Witmer, Bifrost Arts, U2, John Mark McMillan, Mutemath, Future of Forestry, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Over the Rhine, Hem, Vigilantes of Love, Larry Norman, Love Song, Jars of Clay, Low, Neko Case, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Ron Sexsmith, She & Him, The Swell Season, Feist, Vampire Weekend, Joanna Newsom

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This piece is a sidebar to Christianity Today's cover story on "Hipster Faith." CT also posted "The Tricky H-Word" and "Spotlight: Before We Were Hipsters" today.

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ms muse

September 08, 2010 5:05pm

Come on, guys. This is funny. It's a joke. Don't take yourselves so seriously.

Matt J

September 08, 2010 10:10am

At least spell Ingmar Bergman properly. Also, I'm not sure what you guys are going for here. Is this an attempt to draw a parallel between semi-decent taste in cinema and worldliness in the "hipster church"? It seems callous and lacking in grace (not to mention lacking in journalistic integrity, or dialogue with ANYBODY whose church was detailed in the article. perhaps that would have been a useful perspective, but heck, when painting with a wide brush it's good to leave other sizes aside.) I'm sorry, this is just frustrating.

Grenville greenroom2001@hotmail.com

September 08, 2010 6:48am

What a silly article. Hipsters DO NOT LIKE being called Hipsters! And what a surprise, at 49 I find I am a Hipster. Except... DON"T CALL ME THAT!

Elisa Melbourne

September 06, 2010 7:31am

I find this rather ridiculous. Are christians becoming more relevant to the world that they're irrelevant to God's purpose? And how in the world would you 'research' what so-called "hip christians" are into anyway? The medium may change but the message shouldn't and that should really be the focus for any generation. Honestly, give some of us "hip christians" credit who also happen to have strong moral convictions and are not tossed too and fro by the latest social fad infiltrating the church....

Dale Fincher

September 05, 2010 2:04pm

I'll comment on what I know... the authors. I cannot believe some of these authors are on the same list... some are considered great literature by liberal arts programs and the Academy of Letters and some are just pop-cultural disposable stuff that found a trendy evangelical readership. If half of the good authors on this list influenced the hipsters, the hipsters would be larger-minded and less hip. Heck, if the church in general could just start with learning C. S. Lewis, a dramatic shift would happen. The evangelical church, which claims to love Lewis so well, still hasn't caught up with him 50 years later.

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