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June 2017

June 06, 2017

Ken Ham’s Creationists Know Exactly How to Reverse Evangelical Churn

Ken Ham says that he totally thinks that families that do not already buy into...

June 04, 2017

Common Christian Miracles, Explained and Translated

But what do these miracles actually look like, and do the Christians claiming these miracles...

June 01, 2017

Church Planting Amid Iron Chariots.

This ancient story is way too potent of a reminder to Christians that their omnipotent...

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...

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....

May 26, 2017

Why Christian Marketing Sucks — And Why It Must

As one might expect, the leaders in the religion are doing their best to combat...

May 23, 2017

Fundagelical Preppers and the Problem with ‘Pokkalypses

Last year I wrote about the rising numbers of fundagelical Christians getting into prepping, a...

May 18, 2017

The Trouble with Tribbers

A long time ago I wrote about fundagelical preppers and how the doom-preparation community had...

May 17, 2017

Lord Snow Presides #8: Meet Texe Marrs.

I'm looking at end-of-the-world conspiracy theorists right now and ran across a name I hadn't...

May 16, 2017

You Lost Me: How to Create Change Without Changing a Thing

There's another magic spell he wants to teach Christians to cast here, and that spell...

May 13, 2017

You Lost Me: No No, Y’all, David Kinnaman is All Wrong.

To say the least, we haven't been, um, impressed by it a whole lot. And...

May 11, 2017

You Lost Me’s Push for Discipling: Hold On, Y’All, He Knows Exactly What to Do

David Kinnaman's central idea is that The Big Problem Here is that modern churches aren't...

May 09, 2017

You Lost Me: And How They Lost Us

David Kinnaman always couches Prodigals' disbelief in terms of how they came to disbelieve. The...

May 04, 2017

No, Christians. Your Churches Are Already Dead

Nowadays, many Christians act like they only run into trouble because individuals come in and...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

In Christianity, Every Day is Opposite Day.

I'll show you why Christians are fond of the Argument from Embarrassment, and why that...

April 25, 2017

Preston Sprinkle Still Doesn’t Get It

So Preston Sprinkle went into the overflowing hopper of Christians Who Think They're Saying Something...

April 22, 2017

The Tell-Tale Heart of #ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear

I was even more interested in the responses to the stuff women are sharing on...

April 18, 2017

Stages of Grief at the End of Apologetics

I've been coming into contact with a lot of different ideas about apologetics itself as...

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...

April 13, 2017

Robert Bentley is (What Passes For) Big Game Now

One Christian minister rationalized the whole fiasco by claiming that Satan himself had gone a-hunting...

April 09, 2017

An Ideology in Search of a Godling (At Easter)

Easter may be one of the most beloved holidays of the Christian calendar, but a...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Lord Snow Presides #4: How Can We Miss Them If They Won’t Go Away?

I'm torn between mocking them to within an inch of their lives for flouncing away,...

March 23, 2017

Christian Opportunism in Action

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

March 22, 2017

Evangelical Churn: A Tidal Wave of False Reasons

Sometimes we're surrounded by something before we realize just how much of it there is....

March 18, 2017

The Poison of Undeserved Power

As part of finding our own internal validation and becoming our own support network, one...

March 04, 2017

The Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today

These stories are related. They both reflect an endemic issue within Christianity: its broken systems'...

March 01, 2017

And Oh! They Cry Out, “Fix Me, Fix Me!”

Another Christian has a bunch of ideas that he thinks will totally fix Christianity. Unfortunately,...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

Agent Milo and the Case of the Useful Idiot

I've noticed a great many people remarking upon the downfall of alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos...

February 22, 2017

NOM: When Bad Guys Don’t Want to Be Bad Guys

There's this charming little moment in the 1983 animated masterpiece-of-nuttery Rock & Rule that really...