Evangelicalism: It'll make you laugh -- and cry

While catching up on the latest news from The Onion, I saw an ad for A Field Guide to Evangelicals and their Habitat. I just had to find out more! This is from the publisher:

• What Evangelicals Believe -- Plus a Master List of Who Is Going to Hell
• How to Party Like an Evangelical -- Ambrosia, Li'l Smokies, and Potluck Fever
• The Diversity of Evangelical Politics -- From Right-Wing to Wacko
• Evangelical Mating Habits -- The Shocking Truth

While it's been out in the US for three weeks, it's only been out in Oz for one. Not at any of the Christian bookstores I frequent. Again, according the publisher the author, Joel Kilpatrick, as well as being creator of the Onion-esque Lark News, has written for Christianity Today and "attends church regularly for personal fulfillment and new material".

What really got me thinking though is that Amazon records "Customers who bought this book also bought... [books by] Brian McLaren, Rob Bell, and Donald Miller." Evangelicals. (Critics would do well to keep this in mind.) In his Evangelical Truth, John Stott boldly claims that "the supreme quality which the evangelical faith engenders (or should do) is humility" (122). To my way of thinking humility and humour go hand-in-hand. More of both may mean that I won't have to give up on self-identifying as an evangelical afterall - perhaps the term (and the movement itself) can be rehabilitated.