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December 2020

December 06, 2020

Evangelical Disobedience in Personal Evangelism (Means a Lot)

Hi and welcome back! We've been talking about personal evangelism lately -- that person-to-person kind of recruiting...

December 05, 2020

The Riddle of Steel, for Evangelical Leaders

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about personal evangelism, which is Christianese for the...

December 04, 2020

Rejoice: Ben Jack Has Solved Evangelicals’ Hypocrisy Problem!

Today, let's check out how evangelist Ben Jack sees hypocrisy as a hindrance to sales...

December 03, 2020

Ben Jack is Totally ‘Reordering Evangelism,’ Y’all

In a recent Christianity Today, evangelist Ben Jack offers yet another of these attempts to mobilize...

December 01, 2020

There’s Nothing Supernatural About Evangelism

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about personal evangelism, the person-to-person variety that...

November 2020

November 29, 2020

The Bridge Evangelists Build to Make Sales (Refutes Their Own Claims)

Today, I'll show you the most earthly and human part of this very earthly and...

November 28, 2020

Election 2020: Fundagelicals’ Post-Truth Bizarro World

Hi and welcome back! This past week, I read some absolutely astonishing stories about fundagelicals,...

November 27, 2020

Madison Cawthorn: How Evangelism Success Claims Work

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I showed you an interview with a young Republican fundagelical...

November 24, 2020

Yes, Personal Evangelism Is About Disrespect (And It Always Was)

Today, let's look at how evangelism functions as a form of disrespect, why it's always...

November 21, 2020

Cas the Zealot vs. the College Pagans (Lay Your Bets!)

When I was a teen zealot in college, I encountered a group that was similarly...

November 20, 2020

David Harsanyi Just Gave Fundagelicals Their Newest Permission Slip

Today, let me show you how a conservative political opinion site decided to give its...

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...

November 18, 2020

Evangelical Marriages: Where Fantasy and Reality Collide

Today, let me show you how evangelicals' broken system poisons members' minds and relationships --...

November 17, 2020

How Evangelical Men Try to Divorce-Proof Their Marriages

Evangelicals in general absorb all kinds of bad advice about relationships, but today I want to show...

November 15, 2020

How Evangelical Men Try (And Fail) to Pick Perfect Wives

We've been talking lately about right-wing Christians' conceptualization of marriage. Uniformly, their marriage rules don't...

November 13, 2020

The Day A.J. Kiesling Noticed Christian Men’s Fear of Divorce

'Perfect love casts out fear,' wrote someone long ago. Going by that standard, today's evangelical...

November 12, 2020

The Marriage Dilemma for Single Evangelicals

Not long ago, we reviewed a Christian book called Where Have All the Good Men Gone?...

November 09, 2020

‘I Don’t Work With Volunteers,’ Sniffs Evangelical Choosy Beggar (LSP #165)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over a guy who clearly does not understand that his religion...

November 08, 2020

Why Evangelicals Hate Unapproved Sex the Most

In the evangelical world of all sins being equal, unapproved sex remains the sin that...

November 06, 2020

2020 Election: Is It Over Yet Edition

Hi and welcome back! As the election counting continues, our hopes rise ever so slightly...

November 05, 2020

Carl Lentz: Why He Committed ‘Moral Failures’

Yesterday, Hillsong, a massive international megachurch complex, fired one of their lead pastors, Carl Lentz....

November 04, 2020

The Love Narrative Fouling Up the Evangelical Husband Hunt

A few days ago, we started talking about a 2008 book, Where Have All the Good...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

How Evangelical Leaders Gift-Wrapped Their Flocks for QAnon

Yesterday, I showed you the hilarious story of how evangelical leaders like Ed Stetzer got...

October 29, 2020

How QAnon Got Personal For Ed Stetzer

Evangelicals have glommed right onto QAnon, and no wonder: its creators target them specifically with...

October 28, 2020

How the Satanic Panic Led Straight to QAnon

After a couple of years of ignoring the whole thing, evangelical leaders have finally noticed...

October 27, 2020

Evangelical Leaders Have Finally Noticed QAnon

Recently, I've seen a number of evangelical leaders frantically trying to squash QAnon conspiracy theories...

October 26, 2020

Spiritual Warfare: Translating the Christianese (LSP #163)

With their grandiose language, spiritual warriors certainly sound impressive. Ah, but if you lift the...

October 24, 2020

Chris Watts: Virtue Signaling His Heart Out

Today, let me show you how Chris Watts is leveraging his understanding of evangelicals to...

October 22, 2020

The Magical Powers of the Gospel

Today, let me show you what evangelicals think the gospel accomplishes -- and how that belief works...

October 21, 2020

The Gospel: Meaning and Magic Amid Decline

For years now, evangelical leaders have coped poorly or not at all with their overall...