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November 2021

November 24, 2021

Barna Group Sure Hopes Gen Z Can Rescue Evangelicalism

Barna Group has been raising the alarm about Gen Z for years now, at least...

July 2021

July 14, 2021

George Barna: Hucksters Can’t Stop Huckstering

About a year ago, we had a good laugh at George Barna and his shrill...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

Yes, Personal Evangelism Is About Disrespect (And It Always Was)

Today, let's look at how evangelism functions as a form of disrespect, why it's always...

September 2020

September 20, 2020

Why Evangelicals Love TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Research

Hi and welcome back! Recently, we looked at a pair of TRUE CHRISTIANS™ who were...

September 13, 2020

Parents Beware: Toxic Christians Have Officially Targeted Your Children

Hi and welcome back! We've been talking lately about Christianese -- which abounds in Joe...

September 12, 2020

A Biblical Worldview: Toxic Christians’ Self-Serving Definition

Hi and welcome back! Earlier, we talked about Joe Battaglia's book Make America Good Again....

May 2020

May 09, 2020

Barna Group Made Some Ten-Year Predictions: Let’s See How Well They Did

Not long ago, I ran across this 2010 post by Barna Group (an evangelical survey...

December 2019

December 05, 2019

Chick-Fil-A Meltdown: Evangelicals Are Giving Us the Most Glorious Meltdown EVER!

Before, I thought Mike Huckabee's 2015 tantrum over rainbow Doritos was the most awesomely funny...

December 03, 2019

The Crybullies of Christianity (Don’t Understand Themselves)

Last time we met up, I showed you a survey that revealed what evangelicals believe...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

Evangelicals: The Narcissism That Passes All Understanding

Yes, nobody loves evangelicals quite like they themselves do. And I do mean that assertion...

October 2018

October 13, 2018

Dare 2 Share and the Sabotage of the Young

WELL. The best-laid plans and all that! I found something to lead us up to...

August 2018

August 02, 2018

Intentional Evangelism: Yay, ANOTHER Doomed Attempt to Save Christianity

Today, I'll show you what this trendy phrase means, and why Christian leaders have latched...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

The Awakening of the Young

Young people are awakening to their own power and agency, and that is very bad...

December 2017

December 06, 2017

Introduction to the Post-Christian Marketplace (at Fundagelical U)

Today I'll show you how Christians could adapt to the changing reality of a post-Christian...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Hang On, Everyone! This Christian Knows What the Problem Is!

We've been having fun this week snarking a post in The Federalist to eensy-weensy little...

June 08, 2017

The Ongoing Crisis in Christianity Continues Apace

I thought it was hilarious that this news comes out now, amid a Gallup poll...

May 2017

May 06, 2017

You Lost Me: And You Will Keep Losing Me

This book is a good example of how wishful thinking and self-deception makes Christians incapable...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

What Christians Get Wrong About “Objective Morality.”

I've been noticing for some time that Christians' morality appears to be shifting--very subtly, but...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

The False Third Way of People to Be “Loved”

Preston Sprinkle is clearly trying to find a way to square himself with his tribe's...

June 11, 2016

Rescuing a Sinking Ship: People to Be “Loved”

If it wasn't resulting in endless abuse and cruelty against innocent people worldwide, there'd be...

May 2016

May 13, 2016

What The 4-14 Window Tells Us About Christianity’s Future

Even the most optimistic, chirpy Christians have started noticing that something is definitely wrong.

December 2015

December 11, 2015

Short-Circuiting the System Disconnect: Know Thyself

We've been talking lately about system design in Christianity. Today I'll show you Step 1 of...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

Priorities, Priorities: Freedom 2015

Sometimes when people can't possibly achieve a goal, they start setting some downright odd priorities...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

Fireproof: Hunting Bears with an Umbrella.

(This is part of our Fireproof review week--here's the review itself and here's where I...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

Gaming the Stats. (Good News, Everybody!)

When you present people with anything statistic-related, and you reward that statistic based on its...

May 02, 2015

Barna is Seeing Through a Mirror, Darkly

We've been talking about the secularization of America lately. Barna's released a new study that...

March 2015

March 06, 2015

The Handbook: An Overview of the Apologetics Field, and Its (Hopeful) End.

We're about to plunge into actual apologetics works and examine their authors' major ideas and...

October 2014

October 26, 2014

The One Thing Christian Parents Aren’t Doing

Given the demonization done of ex-Christians and atheists, given how little most folks--especially fundagelical parents--know...

October 24, 2014

(Christians Are Not) The Designated Adult.

(CN: Domestic violence, abuse, gaslighting.) Hi and welcome back! We're cruising right into the weekend,...

October 13, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Most Important Thing.

Hi y'all! We've been talking lately about how quite a few Christians base their marriages...