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July 2018

July 30, 2018

The SBC Might Finally Be Addressing Their Sex Scandals, Except Not (LSP #53)

Today, I'll show you what they might be finally getting right on this topic, and...

July 23, 2018

Lord Snow Presides Over A Sign of the Christian Times (LSP #52)

Christianity continues to decline with a loud, wet FLUMP. As it does, Christians leap on...

July 21, 2018

Gaming a Broken System With Baptisms

In an age when Christian numbers are tanking almost across the board, re-baptisms make the...

July 19, 2018

You Must Be Born Again (And Again, And Again, And Again…)

Most people have likely heard of the Bible verse advising that people must be born again...

July 17, 2018

What Ed Stetzer Thinks He Knows About Platforms (Is Wrong, As Usual)

Today, we look at yet another Christian who shows us exactly why his religion is...

July 03, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: The 2018 Gritty Reboot

Some years ago, I ran a series called the Unequally Yoked Club (UYC). It was one...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Trendy Testimonies: Why Christians Keep Saying They’re Ex-Atheists

Christians might want to help ease or (in their wildest dreams) reverse their decade-long decline,...

June 21, 2018

A Tale of Two Non-Solutions: The NEW New Plans to Fix Evangelical Churn

While we wait for the big Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) 2018 Annual Report, I thought...

June 14, 2018

Evangelical Churn: Being “In the Room” for #SBCAM18

Remember that dude Nathan Akin who seriously wanted young people to attend these functions to...

June 12, 2018

Evangelical Churn: The Falling Away of the Young

As the next generation in Christianity, young people have quite a burden to shoulder! And...

May 2018

May 14, 2018

Christianity’s Evangelicalism Problem (LSP #42)

Leia knew that controllers only speak one language, that of control. That, literally, is what they...

May 10, 2018

Cherchez La Femme: The Blaming of Women in Evangelical Churn

Fundagelicals responded to their religion's decline almost immediately, at least on a subconscious level. They...

May 08, 2018

How Would-Be Christian Evangelists Are Set Up To Fail (And Why)

If a Christian wants to successfully recruit new people to join Christianity, they quickly discover...

April 2018

April 29, 2018

How One Christian Apologist Justifies a Failing Evangelism Strategy

A funny thing happens when Christians learn that their favorite tactics backfire hard when trotted...

April 27, 2018

How Confrontational Evangelism is Failing Christians, and Why It Doesn’t Matter.

Christian evangelists act, in a very real sense, as salespeople of their ideology. And they...

April 24, 2018

Well, the Big Come-to-Jesus Meeting At Wheaton Was a Bust.

A few days ago I showed you this big meeting that a bunch of evangelical...

April 23, 2018

Christian Lies About Deconversion–and EXTIMONY TIME AHOY! (LSP #39)

Christians sure have a lot of theories about deconversion, namely about why people are rejecting...

April 22, 2018

Why the Christian Right’s Sex Scandals Are Only Increasing With Time

Another day, another bunch of scandals erupting out of fundagelical Christianity, and yet more predators...

April 19, 2018

Evangelical Churn: Evangelicals Struggle With a Tainted Brand

Today we have a quick detour because of an important meeting that evangelical leaders are...

April 17, 2018

Turtles All the Way Down: The Flood of False Experts Continues

A recent incursion of Toxic Christians on this blog reveals a very sore spot for...

April 16, 2018

Lord Snow Presides Over the Newest Evangelism Failure (LSP #38)

The recent incursion of Christian trolls we've seen around here highlights the failure of evangelism...

April 04, 2018

Andy Savage and the Problem of Evil

The first important thing that Frank Page's resignation shows us: that the Southern Baptist Convention...

April 03, 2018

Frank Page Shows Us What a Mighty Fine Clean Cup the SBC Has (LSP #36)

Well! Welcome back from Easter and our Prodigal Planet special! I wanted to segue briefly to...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

A Thief in the Night: Traumatizing Children for Fun and Prophet

Sometimes I catch myself thinking that fundagelicals are, at heart, perfectly normal people who have...

March 26, 2018

Why Donald Trump Hasn’t Lost His Core Fanbase Yet (LSP #35)

Often we feel like others will agree with us once they know what we know....

March 19, 2018

The Limits of Twitter Glurge-Evangelism: Believe in Yourself Edition. (LSP #34)

It was one of the funniest blowups I've seen on that site lately: a professional...

March 06, 2018

False Persecution and Dogwhistles: Mike Huckabee Gives Away the Game

Mike Huckabee's latest attempt was a few days ago, when he was appointed to--and then...

March 05, 2018

It’s All In How You Ask the Questions (LSP #32)

A survey released last year might shed some interesting light on how accurate surveyed responses...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

The Awakening of the Young

Young people are awakening to their own power and agency, and that is very bad...

January 2018

January 24, 2018

Advertising a Tainted Brand: That Armageddon Flyer

Today I'll take you on a brief tour of one of the failed marketing tactics...