paint it purple

I ran across this quote by Reggie McNeal, with whom I am scheduled to take a class first week in August in LA…
Those [American churches] with a refuge mentality view the world outside the church as the enemy.  Their answer is to live inside the bubble in a Christian subculture complete with its own entertainment […]

I lay in bed last night staring into the darkness… after a midnight meeting discussing “how to attract suburbians to church.” 
I was accused of condemning suburbians as “capitalist pigs.”  That hurt — while I never used those words, I am probably guilty.  “You can’t get someone with a special needs child and $15,000 in debt […]