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Re:Hipster churches in Silicon Valley: evangelicalism's unli... by zellyn on Friday January 30, 2015 @05:57AM (#8971434)
It's fun to read an article written from a somewhat "outsider" perspective (the descriptions of bands and music are particularly amusing). I'd also be interested in reading a more comprehensive insider-perspective study of churches in SF and the Bay Area. In particular, I'd love to see a deeper survey of the latent conservatism of many "hipster" or "emergent" churches here, once you scratch deeper than the surface. People get squeamish quickly if you delve too far into questions of homosexuality, past the "don't focus on it" attitude described in the article.

There's also a surprisingly large "God called us to live in this dark city of sin" contingent, which I find sad: if you can't appreciate a place like San Francisco, you're only half alive: surely the antithesis of the promise of Christianity.

Re:Hipster churches in Silicon Valley: evangelicalism's unli... by bohol on Friday January 30, 2015 @08:05AM (#8971777)
The whole thing seem really strange to me, almost like a parody. In the technology center of the world secular community movements, which SF used to be famous for, are being replaced by churches and networking events. Why not get together and start a study circle instead, it seems a lot more apt for the place.
Re:Hipster churches in Silicon Valley: evangelicalism's unli... by humanrebar on Friday January 30, 2015 @08:11AM (#8971796)
Study circles and churches aren't the same thing at all, for one.