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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 06, 2015

Mike Huckabee’s Failed Attempt to Stratify the Tribe.

Tribalism is a term used to describe social groups that are very uniform in how...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Christian Marketing Sucks: Rapture Scare Edition

Well! The end of the world is coming (again) this week. Do you know where...

September 04, 2015

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely: Kim Davis Edition.

Kim Davis, the bigot-for-Jesus County Clerk who refused to issue licenses because she thought equal...

September 01, 2015

Josh Duggar: What It Took

But sometimes, despite the huge safety net evangelicals have built up over decades to prevent...

August 2015

August 30, 2015

It’s Sunday. Do Christians Know Where Their Pastor Is?

As I've been doing almost every day since the Ashley Madison scandal broke, I got...

August 26, 2015

The Love Dare: Repackaged and Warmed-Over Glurge.

I scared up a copy, got reading, and then went through a second time and...

August 25, 2015

David Helm Knows There’s a Path to Redemption, Because He Drove A Race Car On It

Meet 35-year-old David Helm, an Air Force guy who just got sentenced to 25 years...

August 18, 2015

Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: Reclaiming the Journey

I'm reading this book, Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome by Reba Riley, and I wanted to talk...

August 04, 2015

The Unequally Yoked Club: Fireproof’s Fatal Assumption

While someone might see this movie and assume--as I did repeatedly--that it was hawking a...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

The Handbook: The Original Greek and Hebrew (Is Still Nonsense)

Back in my Pentecostal days, there was a phrase I heard non-stop: "the original Greek...

July 28, 2015

5 Reasons Why Christian Apology Campaigns Fail

We've talked off and on in the past about various Christian "apology" movements, wherein earnest...

July 25, 2015

Hunting For What We Want to Hear

We've been talking recently about Christians' hilarious guesses about why people are leaving their ranks...

July 23, 2015

Church Marketing Sucks: No, It’s a Religion, Yes, Christians Follow the Bible, and Yes, That Is Totally A Church.

I was reading this funny site that gathers "horror stories" from Christians about really awful...

July 14, 2015

Why Christians Are Cruel to Non-Believers

People have always left Christianity and to some degree have spoken out against it, but...

July 10, 2015

Judging Hypocrites

I've been talking about Christian hypocrites for years, so I already knew that Christians like...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

Left Behind: Where Dreams Finally Come True

It's a very ugly fantasy--the demonstration of a very broken psyche on display in the...

June 16, 2015

Do Not Piss Off Lesbians, And Other Surprising New Revelations About the Josh Duggar Abuse Scandal.

It's been a pretty weird week for the Duggars and their ongoing sex abuse scandal....

May 2015

May 30, 2015

The Handbook: The Zebra Rule, Occam’s Razor, and Robby Dawkins

Robby Dawkins is telling some porkie pies about helping to resurrect someone who died! Is...

May 26, 2015

3 More Christian Defenses of Josh Duggar, and Why They Fail.

Here's a quick between-meals snack of three new defenses that are emerging around the Josh...

May 21, 2015

Josh Duggar and the Anatomy of a Not-Pology

By now you've likely heard about the scandal rocking the right-wing conservative Christ-o-sphere: Josh Duggar,...

May 17, 2015

Patheos Book Club: The Hand on the Mirror and TOWTTHO

Janis Heaphy Dunham has written a book about her dive into the world of supernatural...

May 14, 2015

Youth Pastors: Harbingers of the End

Tony Waller's story illustrates an overarching trend and a deeper problem in the religion: Christianity...

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...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Something for Nothing: the Greed at the Heart of Christianity

Prosperity gospel preacher Creflo Dollar recently asked his followers to give him a USD$65 million...

April 23, 2015

Something for Nothing: the Fear at the Heart of Christianity.

When I think about all the accusations and strawmen, all the gloating and smugness that...

April 18, 2015

Let’s Be As Honest As We Wish Christians Were

The few people who respond to Christians' lies and are fooled thereby into conversion--or reconversion,...

April 12, 2015

God’s Not Dead: Moving Targets.

We're about to launch into a discussion of the Christians in God's Not Dead, but...

April 05, 2015

Easter: I’d Rather Be a Lion.

Has nobody told Christians exactly why shepherds tend sheep?