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December 2021

December 10, 2021

Evangelical Reform: Who’s Gonna FORCE Accountability on Pastors?

There's one reason that reform will never and can never happen in evangelicalism: nobody can...

October 2021

October 15, 2021

Ronnie Floyd Just Quit His Powerful Role With the SBC

Ronnie Floyd, easily one of the most powerful men within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC),...

September 2021

September 19, 2021

Toxic Christians’ Rationalizations for Dishonesty

Strangely, Christians all know that they're not supposed to be dishonest. And yet here we are,...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Josh Duggar and His Entirely Unsurprising Child Porn Charges

Hi and welcome back! Last night, we got the news that Josh Duggar -- eldest...

March 2021

March 18, 2021

Evangelicalism: Where Aaron Long Learned to Destroy His Temptations

Hi and welcome back! In the wake of yet another mass shooting, unsettling and unsurprising...

August 2020

August 25, 2020

Jerry Falwell, Jr. and the Morality That Created Him

Jerry Falwell, Jr. is a product of his culture, completely and through-and-through. Today, let me...

June 2020

June 04, 2020

How J.D. Greear’s ‘Evangelism Ethos’ Is Going For the SBC

Hi and welcome back! Today, our presses got stopped cold by some breaking news from...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

One Denomination to Rule Them All (Won’t Happen)

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been reviewing a classic 2005 evangelical book, The Scandal of...

May 26, 2020

Fixing Evangelicals’ Broken Authoritarianism

Recently, we encountered Ronald J. Sider's 2005 evangelical classic, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. In...

April 2020

April 25, 2020

A Taste of Accountability for Jim Bakker

His sky is falling, and we're here for it. Today, let me show you what happened to...

April 03, 2020

Stewardship: The Christianese Sinking Molly T. Marshall’s Ship

I want to show you a common Christianese word, stewardship. It's an extremely useful word to know...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

Willow Creek: Missing ALL the Red Flags

Last week, yet another sex scandal broke out in right-wing Christianity. But this one erupted...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

Todd Bentley Gets By With A Little Help From His Friends

Last time we met up, I showed you a recent development in the evangelical world:...

July 2019

July 06, 2019

Thom Rainer’s New Gig (Won’t Help His Religion)

Thom Rainer just retired from LifeWay. Immediately afterward, he plunged full-time into his new old...

September 2018

September 06, 2018

Christian Accountabilibuddies Are Seriously A Thing

Today, we look at Christian Accountabilibuddies, which are totally a real thing that many Christians...