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September 2020

September 13, 2020

Parents Beware: Toxic Christians Have Officially Targeted Your Children

Hi and welcome back! We've been talking lately about Christianese -- which abounds in Joe...

September 04, 2020

Pew Research Surveyed Christians’ Attitudes Toward Casual Sex

Hi and welcome back! I promised you a palate cleanser yesterday, and here it is!...

August 2020

August 30, 2020

‘Atheist Overreach’ Thinks Secularization Will Fail

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about Christian Smith's 2019 book Atheist Overreach....

August 09, 2020

‘Atheist Overreach’ Blames the Wrong People

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we checked out the 2019 book Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

Political Evangelicals Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

Today, I'll show you why these excessive political leanings can't stop and won't stop, ever,...

July 26, 2020

John Stott and the Evangelism Goalpost He Moved

Evangelical leader John Stott gave the flocks permission to move the evangelism goalpost so they...

July 14, 2020

Church Consultants: The New Old Trend That Definitely Won’t Save Christianity

Church consultants perform many functions for church leaders, from crafting and executing surveys to creating...

July 12, 2020

The Exodus of Single Women From Christianity Continues

Hi and welcome back! One of this blog's central concerns remains the decline of Christianity...

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 30, 2020

Unchurched: My Actual ‘Sticking Points’ Don’t Look Like These

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about Lee Strobel's 1993 Christian book, Inside the...

June 06, 2020

A Portrait of the Captain in That Lee Strobel List (#1-4)

With his book, Lee Strobel sought to teach evangelicals all about unchurched people -- so they could...

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...

May 2020

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 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 12, 2020

Pastoral Suicide: A Sad Dealbreaker for Evangelicals

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

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 07, 2020

Promise and Peril: A Meta-Report on Christianity’s Decline

Hi and welcome back! A few days ago, a conservative think tank offered up a...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

Summit: Claiming Victory Is the Same as Achieving It

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we checked out an apologetics outfit called Summit Ministries. They...

April 28, 2020

Summit: Apologetics for Teens (And It Won’t Help Either)

Today, let's look at Summit. Let's see what it is, what it offers, and what...

April 21, 2020

The Ongoing Panic Over Evangelical Churn

Today, let me show you some stuff from evangelicals that indicates that they're still panicking...

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 08, 2020

Teen Baptisms Are Down (Still!) in the SBC

The SBC tracks baptisms-by-age-group -- and they're alarmed about just how far teenage baptisms have...

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...

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 20, 2020

What in the World is a ‘Spiritual Director?’

Today, let's find out what a spiritual director is, how to become one, and why...

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 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...