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April 2021

April 25, 2021

Gospelbound: Recruitment Through Jesus Auras (Still Won’t Work)

Yesterday, I showed you an episode of Gospelbound, a new-ish podcast from The Gospel Coalition...

April 09, 2021

What Churchless Believers Tell Us About Christians’ Powers of Coercion

What we see now in Christianity's declining numbers is what a purely-optional, coercion-free Christianity looks...

April 07, 2021

Matt Gaetz: The Principles of Power in Broken Systems

One thing I noticed quickly was that nobody on Capitol Hill really seemed all that...

March 2021

March 03, 2021

Ex-Christians and the Myth of the Virtuous Deconversion Excuse

Today, let me show you what a virtuous excuse is, and why you'll find none...

January 2021

January 07, 2021

Matt Chandler Needs Everyone to Redefine Love His Way

Recently, an evangelical megachurch pastor and abuser-for-Jesus, Matt Chandler, whined to an evangelical audience that...

December 2020

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 11, 2020

Evangelicals’ Strategies for Avoiding Change (Don’t Work in Real Life)

Hi and welcome back! Lately, I've had evangelicals' inability to change on my mind. It's...

November 2020

November 29, 2020

The Bridge Evangelists Build to Make Sales (Refutes Their Own Claims)

Today, I'll show you the most earthly and human part of this very earthly and...

November 11, 2020

Rod Dreher: Fretting About Evangelical Men’s Boners — er, Civilization’s Future

Today, the ever-hilarious Rod Dreher clutches his pearls over young women's lack of interest in...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

How the Satanic Panic Led Straight to QAnon

After a couple of years of ignoring the whole thing, evangelical leaders have finally noticed...

October 11, 2020

How Greg Stier Thinks Teens Will Save Christianity

Today, let's examine Greg Stier's first piece of advice to the tribe -- and see...

October 07, 2020

Why Toxic Christians Hate ‘Weak Christians’ So Much

Hi and welcome back! One recent topic of interest around here is the redefinition of love...

October 01, 2020

Where Thom Rainer’s ‘Tipping Point’ Changed (and Why)

In his 2018 blog post, he warned his readers that American churches were cruising toward...

September 2020

September 18, 2020

Why Hardcore Christians Hate ‘Build-a-Bear’ Christians

I'm long familiar with battles between the more-hardcore-than-thou adherents of a religion and what they...

September 14, 2020

Deconversion: Christian Parents Did NOTHING Wrong! (LSP #157)

Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Lord Snow Presides! Lately, we've been...

September 11, 2020

Christianese 101: ‘Biblical’

Hi and welcome back! Recently, we started talking about a new Christian book that promises...

September 02, 2020

An Introduction to Bro-Dude Christianity

Hello and welcome! A few months ago, we talked about evangelicals' reckoning with mental illness...

August 2020

August 27, 2020

Utility vs. Truthfulness in ‘Atheist Overreach’

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about Christian Smith's 2019 book, Atheist Overreach. In it,...

August 20, 2020

Deconversion: How Reality Drained My Faith Pool

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about a Christian book called Atheist Overreach....

August 19, 2020

Evil, Nasty Scientism in ‘Atheist Overreach’

Hi and welcome back! Of late, we've been checking out Christian Smith's 2019 book Atheist Overreach....

August 15, 2020

‘Atheist Overreach’ and the Problem of Wingnuts

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been looking at the 2019 book Atheist Overreach by Christian Smith....