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August 2020

August 30, 2020

‘Atheist Overreach’ Thinks Secularization Will Fail

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

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...

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....

August 11, 2020

Why Jerry Falwell Jr. CAN’T ‘Be a Good Boy’

Hi and welcome back! The other day, I heard a quote that sounded for all...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

John Ortberg: The Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Worse

Recently, yet another megapastor lost his cushy gig due to scandal. John Ortberg battled against...

July 17, 2020

Evangelicals’ Hypocritical Loathing of Cancel Culture

Until recently, it did not even occur to me that evangelicals might have any negative...

July 12, 2020

The Exodus of Single Women From Christianity Continues

Hi and welcome back! One of this blog's central concerns remains the decline of Christianity...

July 07, 2020

J.K. Rowling and the Measuring of a Woman

Lately, a huge controversy hit social media when J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry...

July 06, 2020

How I Learned to Focus on the Game, Not the Players

Hi and welcome back! Recently, we've been circling around the topic of how authoritarians approach...

July 05, 2020

Frank Keating: An(other) Evangelical Mascot Turned Out to Be A Total Failure

Today, I'll show you what Frank Keating did, how his effort failed, and how nobody...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

The Real Scandal of ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience’

Hello and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about a 2005 book by Ronald J....

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...

May 22, 2020

Solving Exactly the Wrong Problems in Evangelicalism (Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience)

Recently, we explored a now-classic 2005 book by Ronald J. Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical...

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...

May 14, 2020

An Overview of ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience’

Recently, I got my hands on a classic evangelical book from 2005, The Scandal of the...

April 2020

April 21, 2020

The Ongoing Panic Over Evangelical Churn

Today, let me show you some stuff from evangelicals that indicates that they're still panicking...

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...

March 2020

March 26, 2020

Christian Leaders and the Non-Solutions They Love

There's an insidious side to these streams of unreasonable demands. Today, I'll show you what authoritarians'...

March 02, 2020

Blessed are the Peacemakers in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #131, Ch. 18)

Welcome back! We return to our off-topic chat series, Lord Snow Presides (LSP), in which we...

February 2020

February 22, 2020

The Lessons Authoritarians Learn

There are a lot of authoritarian groups out there. And they're far more alike than they are...

February 15, 2020

Authoritarians’ Roadmaps Don’t Work (And They Don’t Care)

Authoritarian leaders create these instructional roadmaps that simply don't get followers to their promised destinations....

February 13, 2020

Why Christians Can’t Have Authoritarianism Without Scandals

Authoritarianism leads to scandals. That's just the way it is. Authoritarian Christianity, in particular, leads...

February 08, 2020

Cool Church: How Not To Be Fooled By Church Advertising (Red Flags)

As Christianity's numbers continue to decline, Christians themselves work feverishly to drum up interest in...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

The Lasting Legacy of the Toronto Blessing

Though it began in 1994 and ended quite some time ago, the Toronto Blessing left...

January 28, 2020

Reconciling Christian Experiences With Deconversion

When people realize that Christianity's claims aren't true, often they reassess a lot of their...

January 27, 2020

Jesus Power in the Arcade in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #127, Ch. 15)

In this installment, a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ invades an evil, Satanic video game arcade. Today, Lord Snow...

January 25, 2020

Power and Control: A Fitting Epilogue to the Toronto Blessing

For a while now, we've been talking about the Toronto Blessing (TTB). That's a huge...

January 16, 2020

How the Toronto Blessing’s Influences Created Chaos

Most folks know well that evangelicals live in a haze of alternative facts. Several times...

January 11, 2020

The Authoritarians Arise in The Toronto Blessing

Lately, we've been discussing the Toronto Blessing--a huge movement that erupted in evangelicalism in 1994....