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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...

December 06, 2021

Change: A Very Special Lord Snow Presides (LSP #221)

Of late, some of you have heard some rumblings about Roll to Disbelieve making a platform...

August 2021

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...

July 2021

July 12, 2021

Mark Driscoll: Bullies Keep Bullying (LSP #200)

None of us thought Mark Driscoll would learn a thing after losing Mars Hill and...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Josh Duggar and His Entirely Unsurprising Child Porn Charges

Hi and welcome back! Last night, we got the news that Josh Duggar -- eldest...

December 2020

December 11, 2020

Evangelicals’ Strategies for Avoiding Change (Don’t Work in Real Life)

Hi and welcome back! Lately, I've had evangelicals' inability to change on my mind. It's...

July 2020

July 16, 2020

That Time Someone Tried to Revitalize an Online Game I Staffed

Revitalization efforts tend to fail because once a group is solidly entrenched in a particular...

May 2020

May 05, 2020

Sean McDowell and the Problem With Resurrection Claims

Now, I want to show you why resurrections, as a concept, are so silly. Christians...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

Roll to Disbelieve Fall Fling Super Special! (#12)

Hi and welcome back! Gosh, the spigot of summer just turned off around here. It is...

August 2019

August 24, 2019

Finding Peace After Deconversion

As I showed you last time, Christianity brought me anything but peace. Today, I'll show you where...

July 2019

July 23, 2019

Complementarians Are Angry About Wives Who Don’t Change Their Names

Today, I want to show you a doozy: a Christian guy who lost his top...

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...

August 2018

August 23, 2018

The Broken System: Change From Within (Is Impossible)

Through members' own effort, goes the logic, they can return the system to its original...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Racists, and the Consequences They Never Expected

Lately, Artor brought up a racist Southern dude who may have lost his business thanks to a...

July 19, 2018

You Must Be Born Again (And Again, And Again, And Again…)

Most people have likely heard of the Bible verse advising that people must be born again...

May 2018

May 26, 2018

The Hilarious Glory of a Failed Showdown

Toxic Christians like to set up big showdowns between two diametrically-opposed sides to force other Christians...

February 2018

February 09, 2018

A Landscape Littered With Failed Shortcuts

For some stuff, there's no substitute for doing something the long way for a result...

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...

October 18, 2017

Evangelical Churn: Why Christian Leaders’ Orders Never Change

It took Christian leaders some time to recognize that yes indeed, they were facing not...

October 04, 2017

The Mormon Church Has Reminded Us Again That We’re the Future… and They’re Not

The Mormon Church recently let us know recently how they will be handling their future...

May 2017

May 20, 2017

You Lost Me: Why Nothing Can Change

This past week we were talking about the 2011 book You Lost Me by David...

May 16, 2017

You Lost Me: How to Create Change Without Changing a Thing

There's another magic spell he wants to teach Christians to cast here, and that spell...

April 2017

April 15, 2017

Jesus Sure Changes People: Douglas Wilson Edition

You can see the divine Jesus Aura illuminating this man's life and see for yourself...

February 2017

February 17, 2017

Changing Course in a Broken System

Sometimes I see something happening in the real world and compare it to how things...

January 2017

January 11, 2017

When Change Isn’t Possible

Do more of that, and harder. It's a mantra by now. It hasn't actually worked...

September 2016

September 12, 2016

Being Wrong, Gloriously

We might laugh about or mock Christians who have entirely too high an estimation of...

June 2016

June 19, 2016

Listening But Not Really to People to Be “Loved”

The book is meant to be a tightrope walk between the evangelical tribe's current antipathy...

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 29, 2016

HB2: An Angry Christian Shows Us What the Real Problem Is Here

Christians these days sure do sound angry. The more right-wing the Christian, the angrier they...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

Possibly the Worst Reaction Christians Could Have to the Churn in Their Churches

Christianity is a business, and like most businesses nowadays, its leaders are concerned about the...