Christian culture is sure there’s a way to be cool and be a Christian at the same time, they just don’t know what that way is exactly.

Christians feel tension between being in the world and not of it, and they feel it hard. Christian culture exists to bridge the gap, but they’re always aware they’re not quite getting it right.

Unfortunately, if you need to announce that you’re cool then you cease being cool. Like being classy or humble, proclaiming yourself as such means automatic disqualification. But Christian culture forges past this social code and labels its music, publications and thinking as hip, relevant, progressive, countercultural, innovative and cutting edge, but it can’t avoid its signature move, which is being five to seven years behind what is actually cool in the mainstream. Bless their little hearts, they try so hard.