Elsewhere on this website I have recommended Rodney Clapp’s book, Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation:
http://www.fisharewet.org/blogs.php?id=12. I enjoyed Clapp’s article in a spring issue of Christian Century (April 7, 2009) about how developments in culture lead to the creation of new words known as neologisms: “A neologism takes hold in our vocabulary when it crisply encapsulates an activity, event or category that people intuitively understand but which has not yet been labeled. Several regular church happenings have yet to be labeled.”
Clapp’s suggested neologisms reflect a person of obvious experience in the pew. I particularly appreciated these:
Glibertarian: Theologically, this refers to those who are indifferent to issues of doctrine and thoughtlessly dismiss them. More generally, it refers to those with a weak sense of the common good who actually believe that the phrase "God helps those who helps themselves" is in the Bible.
Megalurch: A very large but very static and complacent congregation.
Falter call: A conclusion of a sermon or exhortation that falls flat, ending anticlimactically or ineffectively. "It was a strong sermon, but it limped to the end with that falter call."
Hysterlector: One who engages in overly dramatic readings of Scripture.