Jon Acuff's Blog, page 179

Someone once told me, "You should write about DKs, Deacon Kids." I told them that was ridiculous. No one says "DK." They don't have their own awkwardly sexual theme song like us pastor's kids. (Son of a preacher man.) But then Robby Kiley sent me a guest post about YMKs or Youth Minister's Kids. And I was willing to relent on my "PK or the highway" rule. Hope you dig this as much as I did.

The YMK

Our laser-like focus on Pastor's Kids has left out a large segment of the church population. One ...

When pop princess, pastor's kid Katy Perry has a prodigal moment and releases another gospel album, I'm going to get an exclusive interview on Stuff Christians Like. What's that you say? "But Jon, she just got a Hindu tattoo. She's marrying deviant comedian Russell Brand!" True, but she's dropping clues everyday that she's coming back.

In a recent Rolling Stone article Brand said the only time Perry ever got mad at him was when he said something so horrible about Jesus that it would make my...

"You don't need novocaine. I'm just going to use this drill to shape your tooth a little."

My dentist told me that yesterday. If I didn't have a complicated contraption in my mouth at the time, I would have replied, "You're using a high powered drill to shape my tooth and you don't feel like that requires novocaine? Seriously? Novocaine was meant for moments like this like the Kardashians were meant to date professional athletes."

I didn't say that though and he proceeded to drill. Instead of d...

As I've confessed before, my wife drives us home from church and I sit in the back seat with the kids. We do this because we go to a megachurch and until construction of a new bridge is finished, our church parking lot is akin to Mad Max and the Terrordome. Also, I'm a jerk and have the distinct ability to cut someone off mere minutes after hearing a sermon about grace.

I'm not the only one who has a hard time applying the lessons of a sermon once you walk outside of church, but a few weeks...

I wrote a new article on CNN.com.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. It's about the 2 ways we become jerks online.

Click here to read it.

It is a well established fact that the average Christian uses 32% more exclamation points in their emails than Atheists. It's not that we're more excitable than other people, just that once we start capitalizing He and You and other references to God we start getting a little crazy with our punctuation too!!!

That's not what I want to talk about today though. What I want to address are the 7 official rules of church fonts. Having recently experienced quite a few in my travels to promote the b...

This morning, I googled, "Best Christian Blogs." Most of the results were blogs I had never heard of. Some were blogs I could not pronounce without at least a year or two of Hebrew under my belt.

That doesn't seem right. Collide Magazine does a list once a year, but it's focused on all of media, not just blogs.

So I'm curious, what do you think are the best Christian blogs? What are the Christian blogs you find most uplifting or honest or funny or a million other things? I think it would be...

After more than 1,900 entries and a week of talking about it, the winner of the free iPad is …. (dramatic Ryan Seacrest like pause, during which you hit continue)

Jared Young.

Congrats Jared. Email me with your mailing address so I can get it sent your way.

If you didn't win, they're giving away other prizes as part of the Charlie St. Cloud promotion. Click here for that.

And next week I'll announce the 20 folks who won a year subscription to Relevant Magazine.

Thanks for playing!

Jon

(To quote Usher, my wife is "the business." A few weeks ago she wrote her first guest post and I am currently trying to get her to start her own blog. Until that happens though, I'll continue to help her put together guest posts like this one.)

Dear Hobby Lobby,

I really don't even know where to start.

You are the bedazzled apple of my eye.

You are like a giant crock pot full of crafty goodness.

You are the Chick-fil-A of department stores.

To put it bluntly, if you were a person, you would be

Yesterday, in my excitement about a possible cage match between Justin Bieber and Harry Potter, I shared some wildly inaccurate information on Twitter.

Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter in the movies, said that he initially thought that Bryan Adams 2.0, Justin Bieber, was a woman. In the bottom of the article I saw he said, "I think she's kind of amazing, she's really got a voice. She can really sing."

I thought that was a funny thing to say about Justin Bieber so I tweeted it. Only...