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October 2021

October 29, 2021

How Controlling People Try to Force Forgiveness

Hi and welcome back! I noticed someone saying something about forgiveness in a video last...

April 2021

April 15, 2021

Deconversion: Brett McCracken Gets It Completely Wrong

Sure, it might seem like Brett McCracken is just insulting his tribal enemies. And he...

November 2020

November 19, 2020

How Evangelical Husbands (Don’t) Repair Their Troubled Marriages

Evangelical men get taught completely impractical rules for marriage, and then -- once everything goes...

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...

June 2019

June 13, 2019

#SBC2019: Distraction Tactics Hit Their Peak

This time around, the SBC's 2019 Annual Meeting has a slightly different flavor. And some...

May 2018

May 24, 2018

Plot Twist: Even Faith-For-No-Good-Reason Has Very Big Reasons

See, faith-for-no-good-reason doesn't really exist. People who believe things that aren't true actually have reasons for...

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...

January 2018

January 03, 2018

The Dark Origins of the Anti-Abortion Culture War

Last time we covered the mismatch between those two types of goals in apologetics. But...

November 2017

November 03, 2017

Jerry Falwell Jr. Thinks Evangelicals are Forgotten People

Sometimes I see something a fundagelical wrote and just laugh, because it's either that or...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Pick a Gear: Selling Contradictions

The marketers in broken systems have this unfortunate tendency to sell two different and diametrically...

February 2017

February 10, 2017

Control-Lust, Fear, and False Prophets: The New Morality Is Already Stinking the Place Up

In Christians' prophecies, we can see the shape of the future Christians want--and hopefully, hopefully,...

August 2016

August 18, 2016

A Racist TGC Post and the Not-Pology For It

In its scant 140-ish characters, this carefully-crafted, polished tweet manages to check off just about...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

Priorities, Priorities: Freedom 2015

Sometimes when people can't possibly achieve a goal, they start setting some downright odd priorities...

August 2015

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...

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...