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May 2017

May 30, 2017

Lord Snow Presides #9: Ed Stetzer’s New Gig

With everything going on in Baptist-land lately, I'm just surprised he lasted this long. Lord...

May 27, 2017

The Power of Prayer in Christian Marketing

Last time we met up, we were talking about Christian marketing and why it sucks....

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Ed Stetzer’s Written an Easter Post and It’s Amazingly Bad

In the grand tradition of glurge, his post not only fails spectacularly to persuade those...

March 2017

March 23, 2017

Christian Opportunism in Action

In comments last time we met up, we learned about yet another set of those...

January 2017

January 06, 2017

Oh Noes! The Baptism Drought Continues for the SBC!

The biggest Protestant denomination in the United States continues to suffer serious churn in its...

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 27, 2016

NOT Looking for Group: Takeaways from the New PRRI Religion Survey

The Public Religion Research Institute just released a new study they completed about Christianity in...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

The Defections of the Young

Today we'll be talking about the increasingly-frantic attempts fundagelicals are making to understand and address...

October 2015

October 15, 2015

The Titanic Band is Striking Up the Next Song (of Decline)

Some churches like their lights to be super-bright; some prefer their churches to be dark...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

The Ashley Madison Hack Was a Factor in a Seminary Professor’s Suicide

Last month, a Professor of Communications at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary took his...

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 28, 2015

The Ongoing Ashley Madison Crisis: 400 Pastors Might Resign on Sunday. Maybe. Any Minute.

From Ed Stetzer, a Southern Baptist Convention leader who absolutely never gets anything seriously wrong...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

How I Wish Christian Bigots Would Respond to the SCOTUS Decision

Ever since the case was announced on the docket for this summer, fundagelicals have been...

June 20, 2015

The SBC Still Doesn’t Get Why Nobody Likes Them Anymore

Sometimes it's hard to believe that a culture can be this blind to its own...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

Excuses, Excuses: Two Ways Christians Delude Themselves about the Pew Study.

But what this study did do was to shine a line on two particular, self-servingly...