Chick lit means different things to different people. One group is of the designer clothes, city gals and Sex In the City mindset. Others fall into the way of thinking that goes: Look, more shallow crap wrapped in pink cotton candy-looking covers.

Apparently there’s another school of thought in chick lit land. According to this article the new chick in town is the religious chick. I haven’t read any, but just know that there is a subgenre out there that marries chick lit and inspirational romance.

What makes chick lit Christian? More than anything else, it’s the heroines’ cardinal rule. “Everything in a secular book is in a Christian book, just in a different order,” said Judy Baer, author of “The Whitney Chronicles,” a popular example of the form. “In secular books characters meet, have sex, then try and be friends. In Christian books, they meet, become friends, get married, then have sex.”

Just because the books have been liberated from religious book stores, however, does not mean that anything goes. Bridget Jones counts “units” of alcohol consumption, profanity and sexual conquests like an unholy trinity. Christian heroines generally don’t drink or curse. They may, however, be born again or have had premarital sex. Many also admit to feelings of desire.

Learn something new every single day. The more chicks the merrier.

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