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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...

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...

January 15, 2017

A Fragile Bubble: Criticism Avoidance

Last time, I showed you that a person can have love, or they can have...

January 08, 2017

Without Tax Exemptions, Christianity Will Collapse (Sort Of)

One of the most fascinating bits of fallout from the ongoing secularization of America is...

December 2016

December 18, 2016

From Tolerated to Dominant (Christian Coercion)

We've been talking lately about the early history of Christianity and how different it is...

December 16, 2016

The Edict of Milan and the Dawn of Legitimacy (Christian Coercion)

Its evangelists competed hard for followers and resources in a culture marked by a huge...

December 14, 2016

How Christianity’s Golden Age of Coercion Began

We've been talking lately about the origins of Christianity and how it retains power even...

November 2016

November 13, 2016

How (Not) to Fix Everything: School Prayer Edition

Often we see Christians offer suggestions that don't actually help the problems they see. Those...

November 06, 2016

Ten Questions About Christianity: Answered

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

October 2016

October 01, 2016

Evangelical Churn: The Same Thing Ed Stetzer Does Every Night

They're doing everything they know how to do as best they can, and yet they...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Leaving the Ring

Christian leaders themselves can spin-doctor the latest bad news as much as they like (and...

September 13, 2016

The Critical Mistakes and Cosmic Irony of “God’s Club”

Christians are fighting tooth and nail to get their indoctrination into schools whether it's legal...

September 08, 2016

God’s Club: Being Genuinely Helpful vs. Being Christianly Helpful

If we really want to help people, then we need to do something that the...

August 2016

August 16, 2016

The Gravitational Center of Evangelicalism is Not Jesus.

With a national Presidential election looming ever closer for Americans, this question of why one...

August 15, 2016

Hallelujah! Pat Robertson Has Heard from Jesus About Another Election!

For a group of people who really hate evolution, fundagelicals sure have evolved on their...

August 06, 2016

Josh Duggar’s Having a Tough Time These Days.

Last year we covered the scandal erupting around the Duggar family when eldest son Josh...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

I Want Them to Know, From the Bottom of My Heart

Today I'll show you some of the things that particular bunch of Christians do that...

July 14, 2016

Through a Bubble, Darkly: 7 Things I Wish I Could Get Through To Thom Rainer

We've been talking lately about how, when Christians write about non-Christians, they often end up...

July 10, 2016

Having No Ears to Hear the People to Be “Loved”

There's a huge, huge difference between listening to someone and really hearing them. Today I'll...

July 08, 2016

We Can Do Better Than This Racism Crap.

If you've been following the latest feud in the atheist community between "The Amazing Atheist"...

June 2016

June 10, 2016

Evangelical Churn: The Fury of the Tribe

You can probably imagine that Christians aren't terribly happy about Shannon Low's deconversion. Today we'll...

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 22, 2016

The National Day of Prayer: Crank-Calling the Red Bat-Phone to “God”

One of the biggest ways that overzealous Christians reveal that their religious grandstanding is, well,...

May 18, 2016

A Little Bit Like Mourning: So Much For Your Happy Ending

Losing one's faith can feel a lot like mourning the passing of a loved one....

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 04, 2016

My Mother’s Dress

Clothes fascinate me. They're a powerful sign of our own personal individuality and a statement...

April 2016

April 24, 2016

Tony Waller and the Cruel Dilemma

Do you folks remember Anthony Waller? He's a youth pastor I discussed about a year...

April 08, 2016

Churn Rate: When They Are Grown, Apparently They DO Depart From It

Back when I was Christian, there was one Bible verse considered to be the ultimate...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

The False Promise of Rebirth

Today I'll show you why the Christian narrative of rebirth is a false promise, one...

March 21, 2016

The Happiness Hucksters

We've been talking about happiness lately: what it is and isn't, and why Christians seem...