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May 2020

May 11, 2020

The Wrong Kind of Christian in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #141, Ch. 22)

In this installment, we discover what happens when someone chooses the wrong flavor of Christianity...

May 09, 2020

Barna Group Made Some Ten-Year Predictions: Let’s See How Well They Did

Not long ago, I ran across this 2010 post by Barna Group (an evangelical survey...

May 08, 2020

Promise and Peril: Lyman Stone’s Galaxy-Brained Solutions to Decline

Yesterday, we examined a big report by conservative culture warrior Lyman Stone on behalf of...

May 06, 2020

Why Science- and History-Based Apologetics Fails So Dramatically

Apologists -- especially in evangelicalism -- love to lean hard on arguments based on science...

May 05, 2020

Sean McDowell and the Problem With Resurrection Claims

Now, I want to show you why resurrections, as a concept, are so silly. Christians...

May 04, 2020

Angels Betting on Zero in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #140, Ch. 21)

In this installment, angels openly shrug about the potential of humans going to hell, while...

May 03, 2020

Sean McDowell’s Third Easter Question Also Fails Spectacularly Hard

In this video, Sean McDowell sought to answer three big important questions through the use...

April 2020

April 27, 2020

Why the Hogans’ Marriage Seems So Evangelical in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #139, Ch. 21)

In this installment, we check out the deteriorating marriage of Kate and Marshall Hogan. In...

April 26, 2020

Evangelicals’ Two Biggest Fears Have Collided

Lately, evangelicals' metaphorical death cult seems to be turning into a real live one, thanks...

April 25, 2020

A Taste of Accountability for Jim Bakker

His sky is falling, and we're here for it. Today, let me show you what happened to...

April 23, 2020

A Sea of Apologetics Conferences in 2020 (Won’t Matter)

As Christianity continues to hemorrhage members and credibility, the apologetics industry continues to gain popularity....

April 20, 2020

A Wingnut Meeting Gets Completely Out of Hand in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #138, Ch. 21)

In Chapter 21, Frank Peretti skipped merrily across a whole bunch of plots, giving us a little...

April 18, 2020

Tim Keller: In His Dreams, He Is Free Indeed

Welcome back! My husband has this hilarious way of describing really delusional people: In our dreams,...

April 15, 2020

Why MLM Recruiters Lie About Success

Today, I'll show you an MLM that had to deliver a slap to some of...

April 11, 2020

How Religion Hijacks the Weirdness of Liminal Spaces (Pre-Easter Post)

I want to dive into the way that liminal spaces affect us--and how they've impacted humanity's view...

April 07, 2020

The New Narrative Lie of Evangelism Success (Amid the Pandemic)

Christian evangelists and dishonesty: it's one of the strongest pairings ever. They'll say anything to score a...

April 01, 2020

The Idaho Earthquake Is NOT A Sign of the Endtimes, Sorry

Just as I was wrapping up my post yesterday evening, my state experienced a very...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

Here’s Why Rodney Howard-Browne Felt Obligated To Defy Virus Isolation Orders

Hi and welcome back! Recently, megachurch pastor Rodney Howard-Browne got himself in legal trouble for...

March 27, 2020

Kenneth Copeland: Why Grifters Gotta Grift (Chat Post #5)

Kenneth Copeland has been making waves with his newest money-making scheme. His involvement in the...

March 26, 2020

Christian Leaders and the Non-Solutions They Love

There's an insidious side to these streams of unreasonable demands. Today, I'll show you what authoritarians'...

March 10, 2020

Christian Scammers Have Discovered Coronavirus (Thanks, I Hate It)

There's just something about con artists preying on desperate, gullible people that gets me mad....

March 02, 2020

Blessed are the Peacemakers in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #131, Ch. 18)

Welcome back! We return to our off-topic chat series, Lord Snow Presides (LSP), in which we...

February 2020

February 27, 2020

MLMs: Desperation Breeds Dark Deeds

Last time we met up, I showed you some really bad public-relations news for multi-level...

February 25, 2020

Another Bad Week for MLMs (And Potent New Red Flags)

Every now and then, we touch base with the world of multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs)....

February 24, 2020

Confirmation Bias and Angelic Meddling in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #130, Ch. 17)

In this installment, we discover how Frank Peretti's tribe thinks angels create coincidences--and how they...

February 17, 2020

The Boss From Hell in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #129, Ch. 17)

In Frank Peretti's motherlode of bad writing, This Present Darkness, the author frequently reveals his lack...

February 15, 2020

Authoritarians’ Roadmaps Don’t Work (And They Don’t Care)

Authoritarian leaders create these instructional roadmaps that simply don't get followers to their promised destinations....

February 13, 2020

Why Christians Can’t Have Authoritarianism Without Scandals

Authoritarianism leads to scandals. That's just the way it is. Authoritarian Christianity, in particular, leads...

February 11, 2020

Steve Timmis’ Rise and Fall (Reveals a Serious Problem in Christianity)

The more seriously Christians take their ideology, the more dangerous a malignant leader becomes to...

February 08, 2020

Cool Church: How Not To Be Fooled By Church Advertising (Red Flags)

As Christianity's numbers continue to decline, Christians themselves work feverishly to drum up interest in...