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October 2021

October 06, 2021

Josh McDowell: Cast Out of the Crony Network

Today, let's check out the charges against Josh McDowell -- and see, in real time,...

September 2021

September 12, 2021

The SBC’s Big Plan: Sowing Division to Poach New Members

Yesterday, we talked about how strange Ronnie Floyd's VISION 2025 initiative seems. He wants the...

June 2021

June 18, 2021

#SBC21: Meet Randy Adams, the FOURTH SBC Candidate

I'm sure Randy Adams thought the SBC's election this week would run along similar lines...

June 16, 2021

Ed Litton Just Became the New President of the SBC

Today, let's look at the SBC meeting, the election of Ed Litton, and just the...

June 05, 2021

How Russell Moore Ended Up as the Leader of the ERLC in the First Place

As imperfect a fit as he was (and is) for the SBC's dysfunctional and crony-driven...

May 2021

May 22, 2021

Al Mohler and the Subtle Warnings Authoritarians Give

The contents of that speech and its intended audience both matter enormously. They tell us...

May 20, 2021

How and Why Al Mohler Changed His Mind About Women Pastors

Hi and welcome back! We've been talking lately about the re-erupting squabble in evangelicalism about...

May 19, 2021

Back When Al Mohler Supported Women Pastors

Yesterday, I showed you the re-eruption of a decades-old slapfight going on in evangelicalism: whether...

May 18, 2021

Exactly Why Evangelicals Keep Arguing About Women Pastors

There's an extremely good reason why evangelicals are so stuck on this one question. It's not a...

May 08, 2021

Evangelicals’ Birthrate Strategies Reveal Very Dark Covert Goals

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we checked out some evangelicals' reactions to the pandemic-related declines...

May 07, 2021

The New Low Birthrate Moral Panic Evangelicals Are Stirring Up

In the wake of the pandemic, many countries are experiencing a drop in their birthrate....

March 2021

March 21, 2021

How Calvinists Cemented Their Victory Over the SBC: The Seduction of the Innocent

Calvinists' takeover of the SBC's future took longer than their takeover of the SBC itself,...

March 19, 2021

Calvinism and Arminianism in the New SBC Power Squabble

As we examine Calvinism's tie-ins with Robert Aaron Long's beliefs and how he lived them...

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...

March 14, 2021

The Two Factions Forming in the SBC Right Now

Today, let me show you what these two factions are, the major players involved, and...

February 2021

February 06, 2021

Racism Might Become the SBC’s Next Schism Flashpoint

It's starting to look like racism might end up being the next schism flashpoint for...

December 2020

December 22, 2020

The SBC’s Internal War Over Racism Has Only Intensified

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I showed you the newest schism threatening to tear the...

December 20, 2020

The SBC’s Battle Royale Over Critical Race Theory (CRT)

As one might expect, the top leaders of the SBC are dealing with the fallout...

December 19, 2020

Racism, the SBC, and Critical Race Theory: A New War Brewing

Hi and welcome back! I'm just endlessly fascinated with the sheer dysfunction of the Southern...

June 2020

June 19, 2020

Juneteenth: Why Jesus-ing Harder Won’t Fix Racism

Today, I want to show you how white evangelicals maintain racism as a core belief,...

May 2020

May 21, 2020

Atrocity Apologetics Must Follow Biblical Literalism (As the Night the Day)

Today, I'll show you how atrocity apologetics follows right along behind this bizarre and grotesque doctrine, and...

May 20, 2020

How Al Mohler Accidentally Highlighted Evangelicals’ Idolization of Literalism

In an interview, you see, Al Mohler defended slavery as a practice. He did it for...

April 2020

April 05, 2020

A Leadership Lesson Al Mohler Didn’t Learn (Chat Post)

Recently, my friend Zeke Piestrup, who made that great documentary about Harold Camping, sent me...

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...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

A Complementarian Pastor’s ‘Simple Question’ (Has An Answer He Won’t Like)

As I read his disingenuous post, I got one of those surges of helpfulness that...

September 2019

September 19, 2019

HumanGate: Selfishness, Al Mohler’s Big Gun

Intentionality only carries women so far. To make the distance, to become even conditionally human in...

September 17, 2019

HumanGate: Al Mohler’s Emotional and Weak-Minded Amnesia

Poor Al Mohler. I can only imagine that his fragile emotional state, caused by his...

September 07, 2019

Al Mohler Objectified Women As Usual, But This Time He Faced Backlash

Last week, Al Mohler did something he usually does: he objectified and literally dehumanized women....

July 2019

July 16, 2019

Why Complementarians Hate No-Fault Divorce

Complementarianism is a sexist ideology held by mostly right-wing Christian culture warriors. One major plank...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

Complementarianism: The Fight For Their Life

The SBC's leaders deployed two main strategies: pretending to care about the abuse scandal that's...