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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...

November 2021

November 10, 2021

How Christian Music Soothed Chris Pratt

Recently, Chris Pratt suffered a super-bad, awful, no-good, terrible week which he entirely deserved, in my...

November 05, 2021

A Tale of Two Evangelical Definitions

Today's story concerns how evangelicals define themselves. As it turns out, for a long time...

October 2021

October 31, 2021

Dreaming the Impossible Dream of Marriage (An Evangelical Horror Story)

What these men want in marriage isn't completely unreasonable. So (I wondered) why can't they...

October 27, 2021

How Christian Authoritarians Excuse Their Leaders’ Hypocrisy

Hi and welcome back! The other day, I showed you a story exposing the hypocrisy...

October 16, 2021

The Drama Triangle Explains a Lot

I saw this thing about the drama triangle recently, and it explained so much. Today, let me...

September 2021

September 23, 2021

Assessing the False Claims of a COVID Denialist

Christian claims always have a pedigree, if our two series, Journey Into Hell and 1st-Century...

September 16, 2021

Toxic Christians Try Hard to Set Terms for Everyone Else

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we talked about toxic Christians. These authoritarian zealots are destroying...

September 15, 2021

How Toxic Christians Are Destroying Christianity From the Inside

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I ran into a few different articles on Christian sites...

September 06, 2021

How a Praying Hypocrite Becomes a Breath of Fresh Air (LSP #208)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over the praying Christian hypocrites who reveal all their tribe's cards...

August 2021

August 29, 2021

Megapastor Todd Elliott and the Church Mutiny

For years now, Todd Elliott and his elders have been fighting over who holds ultimate...

August 28, 2021

Calvinists, On Why People Dislike Calvinists

Recently, I discovered that Calvinists themselves have caught on to outsiders' near-universal dislike of them....

August 25, 2021

The Cargo Cult World of Evangelical Marriage Counseling

Today, let me show you how good advice goes bad in the cargo cult of...

June 2021

June 13, 2021

Russell Moore Wants Authoritarianism, Just Without Scandals

I had not yet learned that authoritarianism itself precludes sincerity or faithfulness in Christianity. Individual...

June 11, 2021

The Entirely Unsurprising Sexism That Russell Moore Revealed

Yesterday, we talked about the sheerly vicious racism on display in these leaked letters. Today,...

June 08, 2021

Russell Moore Refused to ‘Play Ball’ With the SBC (And He Paid For It!)

Hi and welcome back! The other day, we talked about how Russell Moore ended up...

June 06, 2021

Don’t Ever Believe the Hype: Authoritarian Christians and Their Beautiful Lies

Back in 2013, one of their major subgroups, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC),...

June 01, 2021

Fear: Why Hell Succeeds as a Christian Threat (Journey Into Hell #4)

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about Hell -- as a concept, yes,...

May 2021

May 29, 2021

Why Hell Fails as a Christian Threat (Journey Into Hell #2)

Hi and welcome back! Last week, we dove right into Hell. That post pointed out...

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 06, 2021

The Duggars: Authoritarians Trying to Protect Their Tainted Brand

Last week, the Duggar clown car family hit the headlines again. Unsurprisingly, those headlines centered...

May 05, 2021

Of Hybrid Embryos, Human Rights, and Moral High Grounds

Scientists recently created some surprisingly long-lasting hybrid monkey-human embryos. Today, let me show you this...

May 02, 2021

Gospelbound Embraces the False Myth of Persecution

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about a podcast called Gospelbound. It's a...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

Gospelbound: Reducing Churn Through More Intense Indoctrination

Yesterday, we covered the first prong of Gospelbound's revitalization strategy: forcing compliance through church discipline. Today,...

April 27, 2021

Gospelbound: Authoritarians Think More Control Means Less Churn

The tagline TGC created for Gospelbound claims it offers listeners "firm faith in an anxious...

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 17, 2021

Unsurprisingly, ‘New Catholic Movements’ Turn Out to Be Hotbeds of Abuse

File this one under News That'll Surprise Nobody Who Hangs Out Here: a Catholic lady...

April 11, 2021

How Christians Are (Not) Coping With the Rise in Churchless Believers

Recently, I showed you this new Gallup poll bearing yet more bad news for Christians...

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...