Thanks to Facebook friend Victoria Earle Davisson for pointing me in the direction of this video. The American church sign is an underappreciated art form. Its theology is, at least for the unsympathetic, often easy to mock; and, sometimes, it is misguided. But the latter cases are the exceptions. On the whole, the witty and pithy messages featured on signs like the ones in the video hit home with some very important truths — and have more wisdom in them than a number of sermons I’ve heard over the years.

UPDATE: A number of readers have written to tell me that these signs were not real church signs, but fake ones generated on the Internet. Ah, well: Se non è vero, è ben trovato . . . And I still endorse a lot of the sentiments expressed on them.