Self-Referential? Yes.

Over at my other blog, I've posted a few thoughts on a Chris Dahlen essay on Christianity in indie rock.  I mention it here because Dahlen also invokes, among others, Marilynne Robinson's novel Gilead.  Rick Moody's "How to Be a Christian Artist" treaded upon similar ground in mid-2005, and the essays in Robinson's The Death of Adam will pretty much torpedo any preconceived notions of what might be expected from left-wing Christian politics.