The New York Times ran an article today on the trend of going to multiple churches, leaning on the research of one of my college professors. Some call it church mixing, we called it “sampling the buffet” in evangelical parachurch circles at UNC. Hat Tip: WorldMagBlog
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“Sampling the buffet” seems a rather pejorative term for it. I can imagine doing this in a principled way, as a way of protesting denominationalism by spreading one’s tithe around. After all, whose fault is it that churches are competing with each other for warm bodies?