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July 2020

July 24, 2020

Hebrew Roots: Someone’s Found a Way to Out-Weird Jews for Jesus

A while ago, I ran into this bizarre newish warping of Christianity that epitomizes the more...

July 22, 2020

Mark Regnerus Will TOTALLY Fix Marriage, Y’all!

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we looked at a really awful post by pseudoscientist Mark...

July 20, 2020

False Accusations in Jesus-Land in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #150, Ch. 30)

Hi and welcome back! It being Monday, we turn our attention to Frank Peretti's cringefest...

July 18, 2020

Ed Stetzer: A ‘New Normal’ That Reveals WAY Too Much About Christianity’s Decline

Today, let me show you Ed Stetzer showing us exactly why evangelicals are in decline --...

July 17, 2020

Evangelicals’ Hypocritical Loathing of Cancel Culture

Until recently, it did not even occur to me that evangelicals might have any negative...

July 09, 2020

The Christianese to Know for the Endtimes Apocalypse

Today, I offer you a quick lesson for your Degree in Christianese at Fundagelical U:...

July 04, 2020

When Lee Strobel Accidentally Illustrated the Nonexistent Power of Prayer

Happy Fourth of July! Today, I want to offer a funny palate cleanser for our...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

The ‘Sticking Points’ Lee Strobel Can’t Believe (Unchurched)

Today, let me show you what 'sticking points' are in Strobel-Land, his laughably ineffective and...

June 25, 2020

Unchurched: Some of Lee Strobel’s Best Friends

Today, let's look at Lee Strobel's totally real atheist friends -- and how his own...

June 22, 2020

Bobby Corsi’s Exorcism Fits and Creates A Pattern (LSP #147, Ch. 26)

In this installment, we briefly consider how the exorcism of Bobby Corsi perfectly fits the...

June 18, 2020

Unchurched: Lee Strobel’s Action Plan (Doesn’t Work)

In Unchurched, Lee Strobel sought to teach his tribe about those strange space aliens who weren't part...

June 17, 2020

Unchurched: Tickling Evangelical Ears for 25+ Years

Today, I want to show you the context of Unchurched's earliest years -- what Christians...

June 08, 2020

The Exorcism of the Man in Black (LSP #145, TPD Ch. 25)

Hi and welcome back! We return now to our longform examination of Frank Peretti's literary...

June 07, 2020

How That Lee Strobel List Indoctrinates Evangelicals (#5-8)

Hi and welcome back! Recently, we began examining a book by evangelical apologist and toxic...

June 05, 2020

Lee Strobel’s Many Lies About ‘Unchurched Harry and Mary’

Hi and welcome back! Recently, one of our dear friends, Kevin, presented us a list...

June 04, 2020

How J.D. Greear’s ‘Evangelism Ethos’ Is Going For the SBC

Hi and welcome back! Today, our presses got stopped cold by some breaking news from...

June 03, 2020

How Evangelicals Use ‘the Endtimes’ to Disobey Jesus

As with everything they do, evangelicals embrace the Endtimes for a reason. And that reason...

June 02, 2020

A Quick Introduction to the Endtimes

Evangelicals think a lot about the end of the world, but current events have had...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Pastoral Restoration: A Beloved Evangelical Farce

Pastoral restoration involves punishing and humiliating a male evangelical leader enough to mollify the flocks. Both...

May 29, 2020

The Legacy of ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience’

Now, fifteen years later, let's see how well Ronald J. Sider's suggestions went. How many...

May 28, 2020

The Real Scandal of ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience’

Hello and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about a 2005 book by Ronald J....

May 26, 2020

Fixing Evangelicals’ Broken Authoritarianism

Recently, we encountered Ronald J. Sider's 2005 evangelical classic, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. In...

May 23, 2020

How Hell-Belief Inevitably Leads to Hypocrisy (The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience)

As long as evangelical leaders like Ronald J. Sider push Hell-belief, there's no way believers...

May 22, 2020

Solving Exactly the Wrong Problems in Evangelicalism (Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience)

Recently, we explored a now-classic 2005 book by Ronald J. Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical...

May 21, 2020

Atrocity Apologetics Must Follow Biblical Literalism (As the Night the Day)

Today, I'll show you how atrocity apologetics follows right along behind this bizarre and grotesque doctrine, and...

May 20, 2020

How Al Mohler Accidentally Highlighted Evangelicals’ Idolization of Literalism

In an interview, you see, Al Mohler defended slavery as a practice. He did it for...

May 15, 2020

Measuring Evangelical Hypocrisy in ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience’

Yesterday, I showed you an overview of a classic evangelical book from 2005: The Scandal of...

May 14, 2020

An Overview of ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience’

Recently, I got my hands on a classic evangelical book from 2005, The Scandal of the...

May 13, 2020

A Pastor’s Apology in Portland (Revealed Way Too Much)

On Sunday, I showed you something that happened to me in my freshly-deconverted days. That...

May 12, 2020

Pastoral Suicide: A Sad Dealbreaker for Evangelicals

Recently, I learned of very sad news: Darrin Patrick, an evangelical pastor, has apparently died...