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August 2019

August 03, 2019

Why the ‘Christian Love’ Flows After Joshua Harris’ Announcement

Evangelicals' reaction came swiftly and inevitably in the form of their usual 'Christian love.' This...

July 2019

July 20, 2019

Bachelorette: Why Luke Parker Thought Hannah Brown Owed Him Anything

On the reality show The Bachelorette, a Christian man lost his ever-loving mind when a woman he...

July 19, 2019

Josh Harris Is Kissing His Marriage Goodbye

Coming as it did right near the height of evangelical dominance in America, courtship culture...

July 11, 2019

The Power Struggles in TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Churches (Explain a Lot)

If you ever found yourself teetering on the fence about this religion, then this post...

July 06, 2019

Thom Rainer’s New Gig (Won’t Help His Religion)

Thom Rainer just retired from LifeWay. Immediately afterward, he plunged full-time into his new old...

June 2019

June 04, 2019

Questions About Hell I Never Thought to Ask When I Was Christian

Deconversion opened up a whole new capacity to make observations and ask questions that I'd...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

It’s A Really Bad Week To Be An MLM Shill

Today, I want to catch you up on news from the MLM world. In addition...

May 27, 2019

The Persecution Fantasies in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #92)

This poorly-written book helped elevate the Satanic Panic in Christian imaginations--and shaped their conceptualization of spiritual...

May 25, 2019

A First Look at the SBC’s 2018 Numbers (OW OW OW OW)

Before their convention every year, SBC leaders like to offer up some sneak peeks at...

May 21, 2019

The Problem of Wingnuts: How One Untrue Belief Inevitably Becomes Many

Untrue beliefs only proliferate. That's really the quintessential Problem of Wingnuts: What gets weird can...

May 16, 2019

Above Reproach: What Jesus Isn’t Telling the SBC

A bunch of TRUE CHRISTIANS™ accidentally revealed that reindeer game recently with a study called...

May 14, 2019

The Biggest Broken Promise Christians Make

Call it a sterling example of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon if you like, and to be...

May 09, 2019

Harsh Truths For Christian Leaders About Personal Evangelism

Christians really dislike evangelizing. In past posts, we discussed statistics and some reasons for that reluctance. Today,...

May 07, 2019

Why the Flocks Don’t WANNA Evangelize

Today, we'll look at why evangelicals don't want to evangelize. Their reasons--and they have many--play a hand...

May 06, 2019

This Week in Christian Church Marketing (LSP #89)

I normally get one or two door hangers or postcards inviting me to local churches...

May 02, 2019

Newsflash: Christians Still Don’t Like Evangelizing

This week, the big news in evangelicalism concerns evangelicals, who still don't really like evangelizing....

April 2019

April 30, 2019

What Rekindles Belief (In Christianity)

For a few days now, I've been talking about the three major methods of persuasion...

April 09, 2019

Christians (Still) Suck at Making Parables

I wanted to take a quick detour to show you one of the two incidents...

April 02, 2019

If Only He Knew: This’ll Be On the Quiz

Author Gary Smalley coaches complementarian men in repairing their failing marriages. And as we all...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

Why People Rightly Distrust Evangelical Research

In fact, this study demonstrates exactly why we should not trust any studies designed, led, or...

March 26, 2019

Evangelicals React to Their Newest Bad News

These believers in objective morality can always find a way to turn their frowns upside-down with...

March 07, 2019

Keeping Up Appearances in the Cult of Family

Lately, we've been talking about authoritarian Christians' new marketing push: the Cult of Family. Only these...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Leaving Nothing to Chance in the Cult of Family

They promise their followers that, by following their orders to the letter, happy, harmonious marriages...

February 25, 2019

Lights, Camera, Crucifixion! (Part 3)

Equipped with editing software and sacrilegious tendencies, ssj rewrote Mel Gibson's brutal love letter to...

February 21, 2019

The Cult of Family and Its Failure to Launch

Do the most extremist, authoritarian flavors of Christianity really have a monopoly on the best marriages...

February 19, 2019

Before the Cult of “Before” Stories: Tricking Authoritarians

I came face-to-face with two completely untrue beliefs I held: that my god transformed people...

February 18, 2019

Where Mark Driscoll’s Been Lately (LSP #80)

From the beginning, I figured Mark Driscoll began blogging to help bury his disgrace. When...

February 12, 2019

Abuse of Faith: J.D. Greear is SO BROKEN, Y’ALL!

This investigative report has revealed that the SBC power structure allows abuse, protects abusers, and...

February 11, 2019

Thom Rainer’s Defense of LifeWay’s Failure (LSP #79)

Come join me for a weird ride through Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) politics, infighting, and...

February 09, 2019

Abuse of Faith: The SBC Braces For a Long-Overdue Reckoning

Tonight, two Texas news outlets prepare to unleash a major report regarding an epidemic of...