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September 2021

September 04, 2021

How Caleb Kaltenbach Teaches Evangelicals to Fear Wrongness

Come examine the testimony of Caleb Kaltenbach, a culture warrior crusading against human rights since...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

The Truth About Christianity

Hi and welcome back! As many people do now, I feel disquiet and dread when...

May 2020

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 2019

April 09, 2019

Christians (Still) Suck at Making Parables

I wanted to take a quick detour to show you one of the two incidents...

December 2018

December 01, 2018

The Trainwreck Continues: Christian Responses to That 6,000-10,000 Closings Figure

We've been talking lately about the rash of church closures in America. A figure of...

May 2018

May 07, 2018

“Come Sunday” – A Review (LSP #41)

Today, Lord Snow presides over a movie that might be about Christians and tackle a...

March 2018

March 06, 2018

False Persecution and Dogwhistles: Mike Huckabee Gives Away the Game

Mike Huckabee's latest attempt was a few days ago, when he was appointed to--and then...

December 2017

December 17, 2017

Things Christians Love: The Meaningless Apology.

We've talked before about the not-pology, that kind of apology that isn't actually a real...

December 11, 2017

Lord Snow Presides Over Liars for Jesus (#22)

Today Lord Snow takes an off-topic day to laugh at the antics of yet another...

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...

October 2017

October 22, 2017

The CBMW and the Hills They Die On

Today I want to look more closely at why the CBMW chose to rally around...

September 2017

September 17, 2017

More Bad News for Christianity: The PRRI Survey

The 2017 PRRI study, America's Changing Religious Identity, has brought the religion's leaders yet more...

July 2017

July 15, 2017

Eugene Peterson: the Christian Right’s Newest Messy Object Lesson

The bizarre spectacle of their vicious, over-the-top response to his statement demonstrates two things. First,...

July 08, 2017

Coercion and the Global Marketplace of Ideas

The religion's leaders 100% believe that there's some magical way to return Christianity to its...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

Preston Sprinkle Still Doesn’t Get It

So Preston Sprinkle went into the overflowing hopper of Christians Who Think They're Saying Something...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

NOM: When Bad Guys Don’t Want to Be Bad Guys

There's this charming little moment in the 1983 animated masterpiece-of-nuttery Rock & Rule that really...

January 2017

January 04, 2017

Kim Burrell’s Homophobia

Kim Burrell is a gospel singer and minister who wants us all to know that...

September 2015

September 18, 2015

Here’s Why The Christian Right is Totally Wrong About This Clobber Verse

In this post, David J. Murphy specifically addresses one of the several "clobber verses" Christians...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Heads in the Sand: Equal Marriage Edition (“We Lost This One”)

There's one part of the country that is not happy about the recent SCOTUS decision,...

March 2015

March 22, 2015

The Cult of Before Stories: Heather Barwick, Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth

I wish it could shock me anymore, seeing a family ripped apart by religion. It...

September 2013

September 17, 2013

Hey Christians, let’s make a deal — or not

Aren't atheists just the worst? Jeez, aren't non-Christians all just so totes over all this...