If a picture is worth a thousand words, I wonder what a video (or three) is worth? Joel, the hardcore hometown Portland boy (who still refuses to admit he doesn’t live there anymore…) did such a good job describing the church of Elvis that I actually don’t have much else to add.

But I do have video!

Here is how the Church of Elvis works. You stop into the comic shop next door and get some quarters and you pop one in the machine and here’s what you get – an Elvis trivia quiz:

Then, since she kept begging, we let my five-year-old daughter, Genoa, have a turn putting a quarter in the slot…

But the TRULY enlightening part of the Church of Elvis experience was getting THAT GIRL, AKA the screamer, to do this for the camera:

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