What is the Christian Industrial Complex?

I first heard my friend Steve Beard, the editor of the innovative magazine "Risen," use the term "Christian Industrial Complex."

I asked him what he meant by the term, and he said this: "The Christian Industrial Complex is the self-perpetuating Evangelical product manufacturing—magazines, albums, books, movies, apparel, knick-knacks— that are solely for the consumption of believers."

Some people call it "Jesus Junk."

This blog is dedicated to exposing some of the obvious and not-so-obvious materiel of the Christian Industrial Complex, and to call it what it is: Money-changing in the temple.

If you've got some suggestions for "Jesus Junk" that you think should be "outed" on this site, please e-mail me at warren.smith@thecharlotteworld.com