Meet Beth and Traci

First there was the "E-Bay Atheist," who sold his soul on eBay and promised to go to church for a given number of weeks anywhere the winner requested. This resulted in an interesting book called Jim and Casper Go to Church, where Jim (the atheist) and Casper (the guy who owns his soul and runs a website about exploring new ways to think about Christianity) go to church together and essentially review how successful they are. (They also started, or possibly inspired, a website called churchrater.org, but it's late and I'm too tired to fact-check.)

Now there's a new book in progress by Beth (Christian) and Traci (atheist), who are going to women's church groups together--which seems a worthy niche to me, since church groups are where actual friendships happen. In a sermon, a church announces its faith; in a church group, they tend to show how it's lived. Here's a link to their running blog, which has a lot of funny comments. It's a mode that I enjoy a lot: surface irreverence that's sort of the veneer over a deep and grounded decency.

I should probably add a link to the blog in my Links list, but that would involve learning html, and my to-do list is already plenty full, what with the needing a job and all. Maybe someday I'll be able to hire an actual web guru, and then I'll have the energy to do my fact-checking when I have to.