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August 2021

August 21, 2021

The Increasing Numbers of COVID Denialists Dying of COVID

Hi and welcome back! My mind was blown by this opinion piece in Religion News...

May 2021

May 18, 2021

Exactly Why Evangelicals Keep Arguing About Women Pastors

There's an extremely good reason why evangelicals are so stuck on this one question. It's not a...

May 02, 2021

Gospelbound Embraces the False Myth of Persecution

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about a podcast called Gospelbound. It's a...

February 2021

February 15, 2021

Sovereign Citizens Ideology Has Infested New Zealand (LSP #179)

Hi and welcome back! Well, I suppose it was inevitable that wackadoodles in New Zealand...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Christianese 101: Greg Locke, False Prophet Edition

Today, I want to show you one of these false prophets, Greg Locke. He girded...

January 12, 2021

Pro-Life Culture Warriors Distancing Themselves From Donald Trump

By far, one of the only spots of amusement in recent news is the way...

September 2020

September 09, 2020

Joe Battaglia: Let’s All Jesus Harder to Fix America!

Yes, we've found ourselves yet another Christian who thinks he's figured out the way to...

December 2019

December 28, 2019

Mark Galli’s Editorial: Trying To Have His Cake and Eat It Too

Evangelicals think they can have a culture-warrior focus without also getting all the scandals and...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

Why the Christian Right’s Sex Scandals Are Only Increasing With Time

Another day, another bunch of scandals erupting out of fundagelical Christianity, and yet more predators...

December 2017

December 15, 2017

How Fundagelical Leaders Will Reassure the Tribe After Roy Moore’s Defeat

Many political commentators have noted that the election wasn't just a statement from voters who...

May 2017

May 17, 2017

Lord Snow Presides #8: Meet Texe Marrs.

I'm looking at end-of-the-world conspiracy theorists right now and ran across a name I hadn't...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Chick Tracts: A Cultural Artifact, Cheap at Twice the Price.

We idealize the stuff we liked, gloss over and forget the stuff we didn't, and...

October 27, 2016

A Jack Chick Retrospective

In a way, it's more important to understand Jack Chick's role in shaping right-wing Christian...

October 15, 2016

Paul Ryan Doesn’t Understand: Reverence IS Objectification

Members of the Christian Right may not realize this, but objectification takes at least two...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Elevating the Meaningless Blather–I Mean, the Dialogue

Christians' bigotry has cost them countless adherents as well--adherents who take with them when they...

July 24, 2016

A Match Made in Hell for People to Be “Loved.”

Preston Sprinkle, in his book People to Be Loved, expresses some truly atrocious ideas. Arguably...

June 2016

June 26, 2016

The Three Deceptions Found in “People to Be Loved”

Preston Sprinkle's book People to Be Loved outlines the right-wing Christian case for opposing same-sex...

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...

May 15, 2016

Why Right-Wing Christians Are Shocked About Losing

When we look at the balance of news coming out about Christianity, one fact seems...

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...

December 2015

December 28, 2015

The Silence in the Pews: Pro-Choice Evangelicals

Fred's written an excellent piece at Slacktivist about how Lifeway has discovered that a third...

October 2015

October 13, 2015

The Anatomy of Doublespeak: That ACBC Conference

Last time I talked about a recent conference held at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary...

October 10, 2015

Al Mohler Has Crept One Inch Forward, And It’s Nowhere Near Enough

A few days ago, Al Mohler said something very important regarding the SBC's stance on...

August 2015

August 01, 2015

Fireproof Mega-Review

Everybody can learn new things. Why, just this morning I figured out how to get...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

3 Reasons Why We Aren’t Shutting Up About the Duggar Abuse Scandal.

Supporters of Josh Duggar and his parents continue to abound, so I thought it might...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

And I Still Belong To Me.

A new friend of mine wrote a blog post at Ex-Communications about Christianity's massive blind...

July 2014

July 12, 2014

A Legend In Their Own Minds

When someone desperately wants to have status, there are really only a couple of ways...

July 10, 2014

Constructive Anger in the Wake of the Hobby Lobby Ruling

Anger can be a considerable gift. It can spur us to action and cause us...

January 2014

January 19, 2014

Right-Wing Christians: The Biggest Threat To Traditional Marriage.

Quick little dash in to say hi and talk about the Christian concept of "traditional...