So am I right in assuming Evangelical just means you talk to people about your faith? Or is there something more to it? I realized that I don't know, and I'm curious.

That's what small-e "evangelical" means. Big-E is different, and I think Cindy can explain it a lot better than I can.

So am I right in assuming Evangelical just means you talk to people about your faith? Or is there something more to it? I realized that I don't know, and I'm curious.

I've switched to saying Conservative Christians and people stopped yelling at me for using the wrong phrase or damning the wrong people. Because...Conservative Christians isn't an actual denomination. "Fundamentalist" also seemed a little fraught with baggage that I didn't properly understand, though in general it seems that the Fundamentalists are culturally quite Conservative.

Aha! Laura Kinsale, a very good writer of historical romances, often has characters' religions affect their major decisions. One character's major crisis is being a Quaker in love with a non-Quaker (she winds up being read out of meeting); another is a medieval Catholic, and the big crisis scene of the book is her convincing her husband to go to confession.

I don't think of her books as being Christian because they contain sex, which just goes to show that I've accepted somebody else's definitions. Both of those heroines' religions are cornerstones of their lives and worldviews.

Now with more nape!

As much as I love napes, in general. I sadly have a horrible one. Not so much horrible nape as awful hump on my back where my posture is so terrible. This, I blame on the boobs.

So it's basically my boobs preventing me from having a gorgeous, nape-highlighting, short bob.

Yeah, but great boobs!

It's a sub-group within evangelicalism, and that publishing line is catering to the most conservative sub-group, because that's who their booksellers cater to.

I think they're also catering to a wider audience that way. I mean, there probably aren't that many people who are going to put down a book because people don't drink in it. I can see someone putting down a book that had a lecture about the evils of alcohol, but I really can't see the "I read this whole book and no one had a beer at any point -- I'm never reading this publisher again." But I'm sure there are people who'll stop reading if there is alcohol.

I guess my nape is ok...Buffistas want to nibble on it. I'm still not sure what happens in those books...fair amount of relative death and stuff I imagine.

So it's basically my boobs preventing me from having a gorgeous, nape-highlighting, short bob.

I am very content with your current haircut. And your boobs. It's a win win situation for me.

I'm reading the excerpt from the Christian chick lit book linked in that article, and I've got a question -- what's a singles pastor? Is it just the minister who happens to coordinate the singles group, or is that his actual title within the rest of the church?