Becky Hicks was my high school evangelical dream girl. Ah, that we would have met at some New Years Eve Praise & Worship Marathon, but, alas, it just wasn’t meant to be. The Revealer picks up the story from Brio.

“Follow your dreams” is a popular theme in teen magazines, but Brio, dedicated to “challenging teen girls toward a healthy self-concept” — through Christ — takes that mantra the extra mile in “One Nation, Under God,” by Marty McCormack. Actually, an extra 7,000 miles.

McCormack uses the poppy, perky prose of secular magazines such as Seventeen and CosmoGirl! to tell the story of 19-year-old Becky Hicks, who literally followed her dream — she considered it a set of instructions from God — to spend a year lugging a cross on her back around 3/4 of America’s perimeter. […]

The trip took place some years ago, but The Revealer wonders what Hicks has accomplished since then. “I want to do crazy things for God,” she told McCormack. At the time of writing, she planned to “take” the inner cities with a walking campaign she compared to the book of Joshua. Of course, Joshua pretty much killed everyone in the cities he “took,” but we think we know what she means.

UPDATE: Let’s just hope she doesn’t mean what these guys meant.