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December 2018

December 27, 2018

Stumbling Forward From a Fear of Change

I used to be so afraid of making big changes. I hated change and avoided...

October 2018

October 27, 2018

Can Christians Restart the Satanic Panic?

Last time, we looked at the dishonest testimony of a totally-for-realsies ex-Satanist turned evangelist, John...

September 2018

September 27, 2018

Original Christianity: A Vision of the Past That Clouds the Future

Way back when, when Yr. Loyal&Etc. was just a wee teenybopper Christian lass, I believed heart...

September 20, 2018

The SBC is Motivating the Flocks To SELL Lately

When we talked about the 2018 Annual Report of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), I mentioned...

September 08, 2018

Aww, What’s the Harm: Conspiracy Theory Edition

Christians have been primed for decades to fall into a mindset that accepts conspiracy theories...

September 06, 2018

Christian Accountabilibuddies Are Seriously A Thing

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

August 2018

August 28, 2018

Book-Burning: As Christian As It Gets

Really, book burnings are as Christian as crusades, misogyny, and pseudoscience--which is to say, as...

July 2018

July 07, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: Terrible Christian Marriage Advice, Graded

Last time we met up, we talked about why Christians have such a bizarrely-regressive view...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

Lord Snow Presides Over Christian Weight-Loss Plans (LSP #47)

One of the more recent Lord Snow Presides (LSP) posts was about vegetarianism. It provoked...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

How Would-Be Christian Evangelists Are Set Up To Fail (And Why)

If a Christian wants to successfully recruit new people to join Christianity, they quickly discover...

November 2017

November 12, 2017

Roy Moore and the Real Virtues of a Broken System

Roy Moore is someone who benefits from reaching the top of the ladder of a...

October 2017

October 20, 2017

The Nashville Statement: A Blueprint for Failure

This re-issuing of already-well-known platforms won't surprise anybody who's been around evangelicals for longer than...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

You Lost Me’s Push for Discipling: Hold On, Y’All, He Knows Exactly What to Do

David Kinnaman's central idea is that The Big Problem Here is that modern churches aren't...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Ed Stetzer’s Written an Easter Post and It’s Amazingly Bad

In the grand tradition of glurge, his post not only fails spectacularly to persuade those...

March 2017

March 18, 2017

The Poison of Undeserved Power

As part of finding our own internal validation and becoming our own support network, one...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

Agent Milo and the Case of the Useful Idiot

I've noticed a great many people remarking upon the downfall of alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Needs Must When the Culture War Drives

We are in the midst of a vast change in morality that is every bit...

December 2016

December 02, 2016

Church Discipline: Evaluating the Claims

When power-hungry people want to abuse others, and they are given the means by which...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

Church Discipline: Covenants and Contracts

Church discipline is usually initially presented to members by way of an agreement called a...

November 06, 2016

Ten Questions About Christianity: Answered

Nobody needs to ask stuff they already know. There's a certain element of insularity and...

June 2016

June 01, 2016

Being Wrong: The Feedback Loop, Embraced

One of the greatest gifts we can get is constructive feedback from our peers and...

May 2016

May 01, 2016

Evangelical Churn and the Chain of Pain

As the religion becomes more and more extremist and polarized, we'll be seeing more and...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Salt and Light: Christians (Don’t) Light Up My Life

Hi all! Last time we talked about the first part of a new Christianese metaphor...

March 2014

March 03, 2014

Bill Gothard: To Catch a (Christian) Predator

I wanted to introduce y'all to Christian leader Bill Gothard. He's in the news lately...

March 02, 2014

Sex Scandals: I Don’t Think This Is How Jesus Loved the Little Children

Meet 35-year-old sex offender Robert David Wright, who was a youth pastor. You're already cringing,...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

The Superiority Complex

I don't know if diversity education works--the jury seems to be out on that one--but...

December 2013

December 13, 2013

Dancing Bears

Today I want to talk about something I call "dancing bears"--that strange phenomenon you see...